Artificial Intelligence Is Artificial

IBM’s artificial intelligence avatar, Watson, won at Jeopardy in 2011, then of course went on to cure cancer. Oh, wait….

These days, if you want access to serious money — a grant to study something , a raise in salary to the altitude of a CEO, or a successful sale of stock at bloated prices — to pull any of these things off  you gotta have bling. Not the kind you wear on your wrist, but the kind you spout from your mouth. If you know how to rap excitingly about the Next Big Thing, hundred-dollar bills will find their way to you like pigeons coming home for the night. But if all you want to talk about is making a quality product and treating people right, you better get on welfare quick. Continue reading