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.

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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 ...

In reality, his products contained no actual snake oil at all—just mineral oil, beef fat, red pepper and turpentine. Yet he ...

Not only could you furnish your house, you could buy your house from Sears and then stock the cabinets with snake oil ...

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 ...

Most of the products or applications being sold today as artificial intelligence (AI) are little more than "snake oil", Arvind Narayanan, an associate professor at Princeton professor, has warned.

and when you should suspect that companies are using AI hype to sell AI snake oil--products that don't work, and probably never will. Joined in-conversation with Mark Surman. Confused about AI and ...