Comment by formalsystem

Over the years my heuristic has turned into: "Did the team formulate their problem as a supervised learning problem?" - If not it's probably BS.

In longform if anyone is interested https://medium.com/@marksaroufim/can-deep-learning-solve-my-...

EDIT: I would consider autoencoders, word2vec, Reinforcement Learning examples of turning a different problem into a supervised learning problem

EDIT 2: Social functions like happiness, emotion and fairness are difficult to state - you can't have a supervised learning problem without a loss function