First of all there is no machine learning used in the article. Second, machine learning IS helping in places like physics and medicine. There's currently a one

First of all there is no machine learning used in the article. Second, machine learning IS helping in places like physics and medicine. There's currently a one million dollar prize by google for an algorithm that can detect cancer (actually it just ended.) And there have been a number of similar contests in the past. Just look here for all sorts of places machine learning has been applied: https://www.kaggle.com/competitions?sortBy=deadline&group=all&page=1&segment=allCategories https://www.kaggle.com/competitions?sortBy=deadline&group=al... People have been applying statistics and AI to medicine since the 80's. The biggest problem is medicine and similar fields, is it's terribly conservative. It's very difficult to get new technology to market. Whereas tindr doesn't have any regulations or bureaucracy to deal with. They can just push new technology to millions of users overnight.