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Charlie Munger: Investing in AI [video]

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I don't know anyone who has found Watson even a tiny bit useful. I've seen demo projects done but results are always very underwhelming and the whole thing is just an IBM meat grinder marketing funnel.

Watson is a sham marketing term. There is no "Watson", it's a constellation of consulting services and fragments of rotting software that no one wants to use.

Something of a nitpick, but just because it took me really quite an extremely long time to figure out what he meant:

The line should be "we're so short on the real thing". As quoted, it sounds like he's trying to say we're short of an achievement (e.g. achieving actual general AI).

He does erroneously say what's quoted though, so the title isn't incorrect, but perhaps they should have [sic]ed it; he says "short o' the real thing" but I don't think "o'" has ever been short for "on".

'Short of' has at least two meanings:

1) Lacking in quantity (e.g. "I'm short of money this month").

2) Not having reached some point on a continuum (e.g. "He stopped short of claiming to be best singer in the world.").

Wiktionary confirms your first definition (2nd definition at https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/short_of - wiki's 1st and 3rd definitions seem like the same thing in my mind) but other dictionaries don't seem to support this (OED only has wiki's 3rd listed) and I've certainly never encountered it before now. Odd.

I would say I'm short on money this month.

Etymologically my thinking was that it comes from "to fall short of" - e.g. to be too short to reach a point. Fitting your 2nd definition.

See #1 on this page:

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/thesaurus/short_of

Can we get a 2016 tag please? This is from May 2016 interview on CNBC:

https://www.cnbc.com/video/2016/05/02/munger-gates-on-future...

I'm going to be that guy today - can we get a non-clickbait title?

I don't think this is clickbait, since the entire point of the video is the one quote. However, I do think the entire post is useless.

The title is the whole point of the video.

Yeah, I think you picked the wrong day to be that guy.

Be assured Mr. Munger, there are now millions of smart, hard working with perfect GPAs and degrees slaves, so with enough hours of work of these slaves, you will be able to get the real thing, so you can lay off enough slaves, make higher profits easier and become even richer.

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