Sweden, Nov. 24 -- The buzz word is everywhere: sometimes, it sounds scary, because we are told that jobs are going to disappear to robots in the near future and the latter are about to take over us; at the other extreme, according to die-hard optimists, our lives are going to change beyond recognition, thanks to the involvement of the artificial intelligence - AI - in decision making processes.

The determined effort by certain vested interests, ranging from hyperactive salesmen in dealing with selling expensive computer systems to fund-hungry start-ups, which want us to believe that AI is about to do everything that an average human being can do - or his or her brain can do.

The determined effort by certain vested interests, ranging fr...