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"Intelligence is knowing that Frankenstein is not the monster. Wisdom is knowing that Frankenstein is the monster."

"Eat rocks," said Google's AI, apparently confusing people with ostriches. Meanwhile, Apple decided the best way to sell iPads was to literally crush musical instruments. Welcome to the wacky world of AI marketing, where billion-dollar companies with genius-level employees somehow keep making decisions that would embarrass a sleep-deprived intern.

These facepalm-inducing moments aren't just amusing anecdotes; they're symptoms of a larger problem in the tech industry: a critical lack of wisdom. In this article, we'll dissect why having the smartest people in the room doesn't guarantee smart decisions, explore the crucial difference between intelligence and wisdom, and demonstrate how we can harness AI itself to help us make wiser choices. Spoiler alert: it involves dusting off some advice from good old Ben Franklin.

Let's face it--the internet is a giant distraction engine.

Ever gone online to check the weather and somehow ended up watching a whole documentary about monarch butterfly migration? It's like going to the store for milk and coming home with a live chicken.

The internet is designed to capture your attention and hold on to it like a puppy with a rope toy. And while that's great for advertisers, it's not so great for your own productivity or your precious and limited free time.

Yesterday, Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, was suddenly fired by the board of directors, and Greg Brockman, co-founder and president, quit in solidarity. Ilya Sutskever, the company’s chief scientist and a member of its board, defended the decision in a company all-hands meeting. The only thing we know is that the company says Mr. Altman “was not consistently candid in his communications” with the board.

Ilya Sutskever has a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Toronto, where he studied under Geoffrey Hinton (the so-called "Godfather of AI") and is one of the world's leading experts in artificial intelligence. The new temporary CEO, Mira Murati, was the former CTO of OpenAI.

Our first dog was a border collie. Border collies are canine Einsteins. She usually knew what I was going to do before I did. All I had to do was think about going for a walk and she’d jump up from where she was studying calculus or quantum physics or something, and grab her leash.

But she was slow to learn that fingers pointed at things. To be fair, hands often contain treats or toys, so it pays to keep an eye on them. It took me a long time to teach her to look where I was pointing, and I don’t think she was ever really comfortable with the idea.