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… concluded that this stock should be purchased, this job applicant should be rejected, this patient given this medication, this prisoner should be denied parole, this building should be bombed.” – The AI Delusion
Exaggerated Artificial Intelligence
Many people are convinced about the intelligence of various items because they are listening to consulting firms. Or listen to luminaries like Elon Musk, to companies trying to sell their products or increase their stock price. Alternatively, they may rely on media entities that sell advertising space to the same companies seeking to promote AI, data science, and Big Data, which are not reliable sources …

… analysis. 
The IT field is constantly putting old wine into new bottles. This is particularly important as most new claims don’t meet expectations. With few people noticing, the claims around Big Data have been transposed to data science and machine learning. If transposition can continue indefinitely, no area has ever to be held accountable for what was promised. 
Accountability is bad. It is bad for vendors, consulting firms, and for IT decision-makers who were tricked by inaccurate claims. Is it any wonder that there is close to no effort to fact check claims. Who wants to be proven

… resources. However, others are being provided as valid relationships when they are known to be untrue. The primary motivation is to try to meet the extraordinarily exaggerated claims that were made by salespeople to help sell AI projects. Look at so many companies that have sold AI projects.

The number of lies and false information contained in the marketing literature of consulting firms like CapGemini is extensive. Does anyone think that Capgemini, IBM, Accenture, Wipro, etc.. would hesitate for a moment to lie to their clients and to the general market about statistical relationships that they found from AI projects?