Although I agree with the stuff about written things being contradictory, but I think your comment is a little reductive about machine learning.

Machine learning has rapidly transformed many areas, here’s a few:

• Object recognition
• Facial recognition
• Medical imaging
• Language translation
• Speech recognition
• Text generation
• Drug Discovery
• Genomics

The list is rather endless really. Take text recognition and computer vision. People that are blind can now wear Meta (shit company I know) glasses and actually go shopping, pick up items and have the labels read to them. Thats fucking awesome.