Jake Justen’s Reviews > AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can't, and How to Tell the Difference > Status Update
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The authors are definitely more optimistic about generative AI than I am. Are there benefits to AI sorting through large amounts of data? Yes. Are there very real risks regarding government and corporate over reach? Also yes. The authors do respond to existential concerns reasonably and clearly. It's a little odd, though, I have been noticing that the audiobook narrator sounds like an AI voice over bot.
— May 13, 2026 02:14PM
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Jake Justen
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Interesting thoughts on the claims of what AI can do and what its true limits are. The section I've read so far focuses on predictive AI and its limits/failures, which stem from other predictive model limits. For instance, there are many variables that are not (perhaps cannot) be measured accurately or at all, or would create so many data points as to be effectively useless.
— May 09, 2026 04:39PM
