AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can't, and How to Tell the Difference

Why this book is here

A skeptical, evidence-first guide to separating useful AI capabilities from inflated or misleading claims: judge the problem type, the evidence quality, the failure modes and the marketing incentives. This site treats it as its built-in critical reviewer — is this use really better than a simpler solution? What does an error cost? What independent evidence exists?

Use at work

Use at work: run anti-hypothesis questions and expose confidence levels before believing any AI claim — including this site's own.