AI promoters are like the snake oil peddlars of the late 18th and early 19th century in America, who exploited people’s unscientific belief that oil from snakes had various health benefits.
Software applications that never lived up to their hype have been called snake oil from time to time. The term comes from the 1800s in which elixirs and potions of all kinds, even ones that ...
we don't want to be buying snake oil," said Glenn Norman, a director with the National Farmers Union. "A lot of these products are touting what they can do. But why should the farmer be the test ...