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I mostly agree with this distinction.
However, if you are at the receiving end of a mistake made my either a classic algorithm or an machine learning algorithm, then you probably won’t care whether it was the computer or the programmer making the mistake. In the end the result is the same.
“Computers make mistakes” is just a way of saying that you shouldn’t blindly trust whatever output the computer spits out.
Be sure to make regular backups of your data.
… and using RAID is not a backup.