A.I. Is No Hoax, It's Just Over-Hyped

This is the web version of Data Sheet, Fortune's daily newsletter on the top tech news. To get it delivered daily to your in-box, sign up here. The World Economic Forum annual meeting convenes this week in Davos, Switzerland. One of the biggest topics on the 2019 agenda, as it was last year, is artificial intelligence. That's because A.I. is at once an irrefutably important technological trend sweeping the business world and the subject of a commensurate amount of hype. After all, an immutable law of technology and business is that any complicated development brings with it self-proclaimed priests of said subject intent on frightening the less-informed into buying their goods and services.