Many in Silicon Valley and others like to promote the false concept of artificial intelligence (AI) and, specifically, how AI and automation will replace people. There is one reason they do so: to confuse people and allow a few technocrats to maintain control. Machine learning or statistical learning is about the most unintelligent thing in the universe. What it does is it allows individuals in positions of power to hide behind algorithms. It allows them to create a system that acts upon their will and say that it is really the will of a machine. But no machine has values or a will; no machine has a desire. Whether ... (full story)