Does anyone else see how shallow this guys understanding of how computers and AI works? Is the underlined part of the quote above a surprise to anyone over the age of 5?I do. Many other people do, too. I don't need to even read this article. See my reply #2. As usual, this guy really doesn't understand what he is writing about.
Martin Arthur Armstrong is an American self-taught economic forecaster and convicted felon who spent 11 years in jail for cheating investors out of $700 million and hiding $15 million in assets from regulators. Wikipedia
Martin is generally a pretty smart guy, but smart people can sometimes be awfully wrong.
When smart people make mistakes, they can be big mistakes since smart people like to concern themselves with big issues.
The people working on AI advances often are doing so quietly as to build up strong positioning.
“Yet he claims that he himself has created the only functioning AI world wide “Socrates”, running on his super computer .”
It is an amazing piece of programming! It runs in MSDOS and only requires an 8086 Intel processor.
No wonder they US government wanted it.
If only he had marketed his software talents he might not have gone bankrupt three times and spent eleven years in jail for securities fraud.