People promote machine learning and neural nets and all sorts of automated training in situations where some research and an if statement or five would have wor

People promote machine learning and neural nets and all sorts of automated training in situations where some research and an if statement or five would have worked as well. As a Machine Learning Engineer / Data Scientist I would always evaluate my model against a baseline (in this case the if statements) and only put the model in production if it outperforms the baseline.