Your reaction seems quite extreme and vitriolic. My job is to be the director of machine learning at a medium-sized ecommerce company. My company uses machine

Your reaction seems quite extreme and vitriolic. My job is to be the director of machine learning at a medium-sized ecommerce company. My company uses machine learning to solve lots of problems in search & customer recommendation, image & text processing, time series forecasting, and a few “backend” support models for things like phishing / fraud detection and gaining efficiencies in customer support operations. I am happy to answer any questions I can about why machine learning has been a continued growth and investment area for my company and how we thoroughly validate business value when deciding whether to adopt ML solutions. We use modern neural networks in probably about 10-15% of the solutions we operate.