Data Scientist Argues AI Is a Scam That 'Fails Silently' and the Bubble Will Burst
gerardsans · x · 2026-10-15
Data scientist gerardsans sparked debate by arguing AI doesn't know or understand anything — it guesses. Run the same query a hundred times and you get some correct results, some partial, and some wrong or fabricated, with no way to know which group you landed in: it fails silently.
He claims enterprises betting on AI would collapse the economy, and that the bubble persists only because the public hasn't seen through the illusion yet. A representative voice in the ongoing AI-skepticism debate.
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