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… of enormous data monopolies to the benefits to companies not in this position. Time and again, once a series of financial incentives built up around a hypothesis, there becomes little interest in validating the hypothesis, and instead, the hypothesis is restated. The genius of the IT opinion shapers (vendors and consulting firms) is that they sheepdog investments into unproven hypotheses before the hypothesis has had time to be tested. When a large enough data sample is available to falsify a hypothesis, the hypothesis already has a mini self-reinforcing industry built up around it. Vendors and consulting firms pay IT …

… 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
Listening to Inaccurate Sources
Many people are convinced about the intelligence of various items because they are listening to consulting firms, to luminaries like Elon Musk, and to companies trying to sell their products or increase their stock price, to media entities who sell advertising space to the same companies that need to promote AI, data science and Big Data. None of these is a reliable source. For those …