Snake oil and Piña Colada: Will I Survive the Artificial Intelligence Summer of Love?

I have been around the block for a while and I have seen this happening already in a form or another but this time is big. This time is crazy big. I am talking about the machine learning madness that took over everything. Long time ago in the field of computer science a brand new area of research was born: we were in the 60s and this new field of investigation aimed at understanding how the human mind worked was -- without false modesty -- called artificial intelligence. The general idea was that if you are able to create something that looks intelligent or indistinguishable from something intelligent, then, it must be intelligent.