Free Food For Thought

“I discovered all these people trying to beat the [stock] market by coming up with these flimsy theories. They’d ransack data, they’d find some correlation, and they would think it was real. That just fascinated me. And as I went on, it wasn’t just in the stock market, it's everywhere else. You find these people, they dredge the data, ransack the data…and they find these correlations which, on the face, don't make sense." Gary Smith sat down with Bryn and Will to discuss the drawbacks of artificial intelligence, today's information revolution in the context of the industrial revolution, and new monopolies forming in Silicon Valley.