People confuse alchemy with transmutation.

This is historical revisionism. There was absolutely no such distinction at the height of alchemy.

He once golfed 18 holes in one shot!

They wrote the legislation that allowed themselves to operate self driving vehicles. Every one of these vehicles is a symbol of the oligarchy at work.

The problem is the harvesting.

In previous incarnations of this process they used curated data because of hardware limitations.

Now that hardware has improved they found if they throw enough random data into it, these complex patterns emerge.

The complexity also has a lot of people believing it’s some form of emergent intelligence.

Research shows there is no emergent intelligence or they are incredibly brittle such as this one. Not to mention they end up spouting nonsense.

These things will remain toys until they get back to purposeful data inputs. But curation is expensive, harvesting is cheap.

No, stupidity is the absence of something that was never there.

Even a stupid person can experience cognitive decline.

Stupid people of all ages are allowed to vote. We’re specifically talking about diminished mental capacity.

And yet we let them vote and run the country.

We can’t even agree to revalidate their driving ability because that would be disrespectful.

They don’t get to have it both ways.