Hanson is economist, not a computer scientist. He may not be right about exactly why the hype is unfounded. But he is not wrong about the fact that it is unfoun

Hanson is economist, not a computer scientist. He may not be right about exactly why the hype is unfounded. But he is not wrong about the fact that it is unfounded. There is no "awe-inspiring" rate of success with these projects, no massive revenue streams that are boiling up all over the landscape, which is absolutely what would have to be happening already to possibly justify predictions of "47% of US jobs in 20 years". The giant piles of dirty data are that way because for thirty years no one has considered them worth cleaning up. How will they create such astounding amounts of unexpected value?