Markets with Bertie: Artificial versus first-rate intelligence

Not a day passes without Bertie reading some breathless reports on how artificial intelligence (AI) is going to change the world. To be honest, AI has not made deep inroads into Bertie’s life except for how he searches for things online. But Bertie knows he is a borderline Luddite, so he tends to believe it when smart people tell him that AI is a game-changer.

To educate himself more on the AI revolution, Bertie attended a talk by a world-renowned expert whose forte is tracing the wide evolutionary arc of almost everything, including technology.