Re There ain't no HAL's or "answer men" in this world
WBM,
True. But the fact that something does not now exist does not, in and of itself, preclude a future existence.
100 years ago there were no airplanes
80 years ago there was no household refrigeration or air conditioning
60 years ago there were no jet aircraft or television, no atomic bomb, or nuclear power
50 years ago there were no supersonic aircraft
30 years ago there were no PCs
And what about lasers, electron microscopes, EKGs, polio and tetanus vaccines, manned orbital vehicles, walks on the moon, etc?
The list of things that at one time weren't there but now are taken for granted is very long indeed. I, for one, am interested in what HAL can and can't do, and am VERY interested in what HAL will be able to do in the future. One good way to find out is to have periodic updates of HAL's predictiong which we can then measure against actual market movement.
Actually, I find this type of post much more germane to the subject of this thread than the 'Go DELL Go' type posts we frequently encounter. Would you not be interested if at some point HAL attains a 70% or 95% accuracy rate on it's predictions?
JFWIW,
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