Machine learning's abiding weakness is verification

Opinion Machine learning's abiding weakness is verification. Is your AI telling the truth? Still, with so many new business models depending on AI's promise to bring the holy grail of scale to real-world data analysis, this lack of testability has new economic consequences. The basic mechanisms of machine learning are sound, or at least statistically reliable. Within the parameters of its training data, an ML process will deliver what the underlying mathematics promise.