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EQ Eats IQ For Lunch ... and Dinner

Peter Drucker is credited with saying, "Culture eats strategy for breakfast." So true, although the late Mr. Drucker's people have repeatedly said he never uttered those words. Here's a bigger and better one. EQ eats IQ for both lunch and dinner.  I was reminded of this in reading about the extraordinary "godfather of artificial intelligence" Yann LeCun.  He was asked in a recent Financial Times interview with Melissa Heikkila what he wants his legacy to be. The extraordinary Turing Award winner and longtime Chief AI Scientist at Meta said he wants to increase the amount of intelligence in the world. "Intelligence is really the thing that we should have more of," he said, "adding that with more intelligence, there's less human suffering, more rational decisions, and more understanding of the world and the universe. We suffer from stupidity." Dr. LeCun is right, of course, at least as far as he went in the interview. That said, his obs...

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