A lot of stuff is the same between machine learning and statistics with different terminology. With machine learning often more focussing on the practical side rather the theoretical side (or the real probabilities).
It's good to cross pollinate and learn from each other. Such as the machine learning field learning to create better models with Bayesian statistics, and statisticians learning from models like support vector machines.
I also look forward to more mathematicians and statisticians exploring deep learning, and finding more rigorous scientific explanations why they work so well (and this can help us making them even better).
(I come from an Econometrics background, but wrote my master these about machine learning).