I know someone who worked at a marketing "machine learning" company. The ML really needs to be in quotes, because if you looked under the hood you'd see the peo

I know someone who worked at a marketing "machine learning" company. The ML really needs to be in quotes, because if you looked under the hood you'd see the people behind the curtain (literally -- Amazon Turk workers). But VCs loved them, customers loved them. The blind selling to the blind... Marketers had money to spend, ML is the hotness, everyone makes money! (My friend no longer works there)