Forget the AI doom and hype, let's make computers useful

Machine learning has its place, just not in ways that suits today's hypesters

Systems Approach  Full disclosure: I have a history with AI, having flirted with it in the 1980s (remember expert systems?) and then having safely avoided the AI winter of the late 1980s by veering off into formal verification before finally landing on networking as my specialty in 1988.…