And why we need to separate the unproven economic philosophy of Theoretical Artificial Intelligence Marketing from the technology. City Pier, Port Angeles, Washington. Photo ©️ Robin Monks. I've become increasingly convinced that the leadership teams in charge of big tech companies are completely technologically clueless, and that cluelessness is serving them well. How am I being convinced of this? Because of their claims that they've solved productivity and creation through AI. Everyone of them makes tools that simply do not work for that purpose. The chasm between what big tech is selling, how reviewers and other executives talk about what AI can do, and what AI can actually do is so wide that I feel half my sanity will fall into the void. To start off with, I'm an engineer who worked on machine learning, computer vision, and natural language understanding.…