Here&#x27;s a provocative idea: Maybe it&#x27;s because deep learning and all the other popular AI algorithms are complete and utter rubbish.<p>Maybe using them has nothing to do with standing on the shoulders of giants but much more with standing on the shoulders of the local maximum that is achievable by throwing insane amounts of data at dumb algorithms.<p>If you could choose between access to algorithms and data structures that exactly mimic the human brain and a data set that contains everything all humans taken together know, what would you choose?