{"id":18606,"date":"2021-11-18T05:21:03","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T12:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=18606"},"modified":"2021-11-18T05:21:03","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T12:21:03","slug":"overnight-news-if-artificial-intelligence-had-any-brains-it-wouldnt-let-zillow-ceo-rich-barton-throw-it-under-the-bus-for-his-absurd-deliberately-uninformed-inve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/18606\/overnight-news-if-artificial-intelligence-had-any-brains-it-wouldnt-let-zillow-ceo-rich-barton-throw-it-under-the-bus-for-his-absurd-deliberately-uninformed-inve\/","title":{"rendered":"Overnight News: If \u201cArtificial Intelligence\u201d had any brains, it wouldn\u2019t let Zillow CEO Rich Barton throw it under the bus for his absurd, deliberately-uninformed \u201cinvestment\u201d assumptions."},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cDogs have brains but not minds. Never wise, always\u00a0diligent.\u201d<\/p><\/div>Here are three facts about intelligence:<\/p>\n

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  1. Your dog is not intelligent, nor is any entity lacking a properly-functioning thinking brain.<\/li>\n
  2. \n

    “Artificial Intelligence” is quite a bit less intelligent than your dog \u2013 and it is never capable of even the most basic forms of awareness, understood biologically.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  3. \n

    The only actual intelligence in the universe, that we know of so far, occurs between the ears of mature genetic homo sapiens<\/em> within whom a properly-functioning thinking brain has been appropriately cultivated. Importantly: Nothing of “Artificial Intelligence” can or even attempts to do any of this.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Why does this matter?<\/p>\n

    When Rich Barton blames “Artificial Intelligence algorithms” for his abject failure as an investor, he’s bullshitting you yet again: Computers \u2013 even computers decked out in the Incumbent’s New Machine Learning \u2013 do what you tell them to do, not what you want them to do. In this one way, they are preferable to our sometimes willful dogs, taking account that neither<\/em> is capable of informed discretion.<\/p>\n

    Zillow’s computers were bossed around by CEO Rich Barton, a tyro “investor” who insisted that tomorrow would always replicate yesterday \u2013 static market fallacy \u2013 and that black swans cannot exist \u2013 where, of course, real estate is a black swan business.<\/p>\n

    The computers did what they were told to do \u2013 by a fool drunk on his own hubris, blinded by his self-seeking sycophants and blindfolded by his absurd insistence that deliberately knowing nothing about real estate investing is the best way to make bank. I wish I were joking.<\/p>\n

    Take some responsibility, Poindexter. You made a classic egghead mistake, “reasoning” by unreliable proxy signals, but it doesn’t do to blame your vehicle. It went where you drove it \u2013 blindfolded.<\/p>\n

    In other news:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

    Bari Weiss:<\/strong> The Media’s Verdict on Kyle Rittenhouse: Why so many got this story so wrong.<\/a><\/p>\n

    ZeroHedge.com:<\/strong> The Rittenhouse Case Proves The Establishment Wants To Bring Back Star Chamber Tyranny.<\/a><\/p>\n

    Christopher Rufo:<\/strong> Enemies of the School Board{ Parents in some school districts find their input suppressed \u2013 and their dissent criminalized.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    \u201cDogs have brains but not minds. Never wise, always\u00a0diligent.\u201dHere are three facts about intelligence: Your dog is not intelligent, nor is any entity lacking a properly-functioning thinking brain. “Artificial Intelligence” is quite a bit less intelligent than your dog \u2013 and it is never capable of even the most basic forms of awareness, understood biologically. 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