[jimmychoozyx]

All industry has a degree of foul play, including government corruption, fraud, bribery & money laundering. It varies by industry and geography.

I worked at a company recently who made claims about products having AI, and then I spoke with a data scientist who confirmed that the products do not have AI capabilities-- even basic statistical modeling or prediction.

I suspect an astonishing proportion of businesses lie to a certain degree, on the sales, marketing, and management side of things.

[j00mz]

I worked at a company that has AI and Machine Learning in the marketing materials.

They didn't have what the industry calls AI, e.g. any machine based decisions being executed on the basis of data analysis and tuned machine learning models.

What they do have is a very fast, very smart and sophisticated decision tree and rule based engine, albeit one that gives excellent results.

When they actually tried hiring ML experts for "Real AI", the results from the Data Scientists were so much worse than the original engine, they ditched the Research team.

I always wondered, since the product actually gave excellent value to the customer, and the customer did actually get what he was promised from the system, is this still unethical because it ultimately was rule based as opposed to ML based decisions?