> The one advance that might finally challenge the 'no silver bullet' rule is machine learning.
Machine learning can't even predict a simple binary proportion ratio. No, it's not a silver bullet.
Machine learning can't even predict a simple binary proportion ratio. No, it's not a silver bullet.
Machine learning is very effective in categorizing things - for example, given an image estimate whether it pictures a cancer cell or not.
On the other hand, machine learning sucks where you need to predict things instead of categorizing - for example, given a set of factors, figure out your risk of getting cancer within 5 years.
Any such machine learning predictive system will be useless due to under- or overfitting.
(Again, I'm not an expert, just a guy who has many years of experience trying to build such predictive systems.)