quarantine 'em

Gonna go ahead and say this outright: machine learning is money laundering for responsibility

(As well as, as is well established by someone with a more original wit than me, being money laundering for responsibility)

A regular computer program is written by someone. It goes wrong, you blame the coders. "Machine learning" is written by an omnipotent blank

"Nobody wrote it! It wrote itself! All we did was select the raw data and write the procedure it used to do that."

"God did it."

It's marketing. It's ineffable. It's the same dull informational plumbing we've been doing this whole time but with extra steps.