I think my first introduction to Computers Doing Lots of Statistics ™ was with Zeitgeist, so I’d be more curious what Seif Lotfy thinks (somebody tag him if he’s on Fedi? Or link me to his existing rants on the subject). I think we were way ahead of the curve 10-15 years ago on that kind of machine learning, but it didn’t get the kind of investment and attention it would have needed to become a real product.