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The blog 'Breaking Bread' is for a civil general discussion, like you might have at the dinner table with guests. The posts 'Economics Without the B.S.' are intended for a general audience that wouldn't have to know the difference between a Phillips Curve, a Laffer Curve, or a Cole Hamels Curve. Vic Volpe was formally educated at Penn State and the University of Scranton, with major studies in History, Economics and Finance, and Business; and, is self-educated since by way of books and on-line university courses. His practical education came from sixty years of work experience in the blue-collar trades as well as a white-collar professional career -- a white-collar professional career in production and R&D. In his professional career and as a long-haul trucker, he has traveled throughout the lower forty-eight. From his professional career alone he has visited many manufacturing plants in the United States, Europe and China. He has lived in major metropolitan areas and very small towns in various parts of the United States. He served three years with the U.S. Army as an enlisted man, much of that time in Germany.

Thursday, February 13, 2025

How smart is AI?

Economics Without The B.S.**: 


[**  Double entendre intended.]


How smart is AI?

If AI existed in the 1840s and you asked it a question about the electromagnetic spectrum, what kind of answer would it have given you?
There was very little recorded information by the 1840s on the electromagnetic spectrum. You see it was not discovered until the 1860s, and at that point the "discovery" was only a theory put forth by James Clerk Maxwell. And his theory was not proved until the 1880s by the German physicist Heinrich Hertz.
Even Isaac Newton, considered a polymath, who lived into the 18th century knew very little about the electromagnetic spectrum. Today an undergraduate student with a degree in electrical engineering knows more about the electromagnetic spectrum than Isaac Newton.
Knowledge is about discovery, discovery of what appears unkown. AI is about the gathering of information; and it can be "trained" to use that information. Guess who trains it?
Humans are not about to be replaced by machines, no matter how "smart" the machines are.
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