For the past few weeks we've been blogging about independent agency education requirements and the possibility of agents being replaced by a supercomputer. Today I'll be sharing some comments from our readers on these subjects.
One of the most interesting responses I've gotten to “Are you smarter than a supercomputer?” is from Larry McSpadden, senior vice president of Beauchamp & McSpadden Inc.
Larry cites Moore's Law as a way to project how quickly technology like Watson will render all of us obsolete:
As a hobby for years I've read science journals and news feeds, and can see no reason to suppose that Moore's Law won't continue for at least another 15 or 20 generations—and at that point the assistive power of the computers themselves in making further leaps would suggest many more “doublings” past that.
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