Why do big brains screw up so offen? There’s no percentage in producing a perfect Version I
when you can soak customersfor a new, improved Version 2.
“Can you keep a secret?” asked my friend Morton, the financial researcher.
“Depends on the secret.”
“This could mean my job. You promise you won’t go public with this?”
“Only to my readers.”
“Fine. Neither one works here. You remember when I told you to put your money into Artificial Intelligence?”
“How could I forget?” In a matter of weeks, Morton’s sage advice had transformed my meager fortune into a royal pittance.
“OK. Now we’ve got a bigger scoop.”
He paused for dramatic effect. “Artificial Stupidity.”
“Is the world really ready for that?” I wondered.
“It’s not pie in the sky, by and by, when you die, like AI,” Morton assured me. “It’s here now: the wave of the present.”
“Prove it.”
PC Magazine, June 10, 1986, pg 95
Leo Wattenberg 