What you are witnessing and the article suggests is probably more a homeopathic ("poison to cure poison") phenomenon of laypeople correcting laypeople. But Arn

What you are witnessing and the article suggests is probably more a homeopathic ("poison to cure poison") phenomenon of laypeople correcting laypeople. But Arnold Kling is not exactly "layman": > Arnold Kling earned his Ph.D in economics from MIT in 1980. He worked at the Fed and later at Freddie Mac. In 1994, he started one of the first businesses on the Web, selling it in 1999 Maybe he never coded an ANN engine, he is probably following the evolution with interest from his own perspective. And the conclusion is the opposite of "«armchair expert[ise]»" - if anything, it is too underdeveloped: > I do not believe that we know enough to predict with any accuracy which uses of AI will take off and which will prove to be either too trivial (recipe tracking) or too elusive (maybe it’s too much to hope that AI will allow children to escape from school-prison). The best way to find out is to work with it, not to dismiss it