> How about Netflix? They use AI/ML quite a bit. It seems to have driven quite a lot more people to watch movies and tv than before. ... and the word 'cable cu

> How about Netflix? They use AI/ML quite a bit. It seems to have driven quite a lot more people to watch movies and tv than before. ... and the word 'cable cutters' is being thrown around with a lot more intensity, plus various charts of rapidly declining cable TV viewership. > Amazon uses AI/ML in its Echo, which was quite a high-selling consumer good last holiday season. [gestures at the latest brick-and-mortar bookstore news with B+N on the rocks and Borders in its grave ... given AMZ got it's start as a bookseller.] A pessimistic response to be sure (and one that I'm reluctantly making), but there's coincidence, and then there's a pattern that starts emerging whenever a disruptor unicorn cements its place into an industry.