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21. Is Artificial Intelligence a massive con?

Jul 5, 2019

Have you heard the one about the toothbrush that uses artificial intelligence to tell you to brush harder? Morey Haber of BeyondTrust has and it annoys him intensely. He's seen a company sued because it claimed basic pattern recognition was AI and it just wasn't - and he's had enough.

In this episode of the Near Futurist, he explains his view to Guy Clapperton - and how marketers calling everything AI are ultimately over-valuing their companies and their assets, against everyone's interests but their own.Near