Artificial intelligence: Why one expert says it's a waste of money

TechRepublic's Karen Roby talks with an AI expert who believes we need to rethink our approach and focus more on cost benefit tradeoffs and resourcing. The following is an edited transcript of the interview. We're talking with Arijit Sengupta, he's an AI expert with over 20 years of education and experience working in artificial intelligence and even wrote a book called AI is a Waste Of Money. So Arijit, you obviously think we need to re-evaluate our approach to AI… explain! Arijit Sengupta: The answer is to go back to the fundamentals.