Is the most important question about AI whether it works or not?

[Nicked from myself on HN .] No. No, it is not. For me, after ~25 years in the skeptics movement, I think the parallels with supplementary, complementary and alternative medicine are most useful. I choose that term intentionally: its initials are S.C.A.M. and that's exactly what it is. As Tim Minchin and Alan Kay both noted, "we have a special term for alternative medicine that's been tested and…