If you're thinking of the recent boom in machine learning specifically, there are plenty of people in ML, even people making lots of money from it, who think th

If you're thinking of the recent boom in machine learning specifically, there are plenty of people in ML, even people making lots of money from it, who think the concept of "artificial intelligence" is a recurring hoax, or at best an overselling aimed at people who've read more sci-fi than science. Of course plenty of people think otherwise, too, but it's not a rare view within the field.