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 I have been an amazon seller for more than five years and have had a store on Amazon most of that time paying  $39.95 per month for the access.  Having the store permitted me to sell with slightly lower fees paid to Amazon for their services.  Nothing beats the exposure to large populations of buyers as Amazon but the trade-off is everything else.   I worked ok but then Amazon started to get more AI involved in determining what and how I could sell and at what price I could sell it for.  Some time ago I had a bath salt kit listed for sale and it was removed because their pre-AI bots decided it was something to do with illegal drugs and that was just one of many subsequent items to be removed from my inventory.  I am a reseller like many amazon sellers and sometimes my article for sale is new in the original sealed package. If I list it as new now the AI sales sensors/censors remove the item giving me a message I have stolen intellectual property ...

 Artificial Intelligence is one of the most hyped fields in technology which like Quantum Computing never is quite the reality projected.   Artificial intelligence and machine learning are all about simulating intelligence and the word simulation is key.  Creating simulated intelligence for problem-solving is not giving machines control over their environment. We humans believe we have such control over the environment but not really so.  We are part of our environment we breathe air to survive and thrive that comes from the environment. We might have to create our own air on another planet but here on earth we are part of the environment created by nature and our influence on nature is natural.  It is not our brain size but our fingers for prestidigitation that allows us to modify some local environmental attributes.  Our intelligence and what we see as intelligence is how we deal with the environment including each other. So if a machine is to have t...