Not pretending to favor one buzzword bubble over another, but the author seems to think that it's particularly blockchain technology that's being irrationally p

Not pretending to favor one buzzword bubble over another, but the author seems to think that it's particularly blockchain technology that's being irrationally pursued, not AI. No doubt, blockchains are being completely inappropriately sold to investors to perform all sorts of miracles that truly require nothing more than a database, but the very same is true of AI. This is an obvious case of the old adage, "When you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail." In particular, I fear a future where too many rational algorithms have been supplanted with their irrational AI counterparts. The latter cannot be debugged, and analyzing the mechanisms of trained networks will become increasingly opaque with increasing complexity. Since we're comparing these buzzwords, blockchain is, at the end of the day, just another algorithm that can be debugged by reason and logic. It's behavior is definite and provable. In terms of thinking of the brittleness of complex systems, I much prefer ones where all the parts can be analyzed by reasoning.