Here's a brain-teaser for you: why do so many techno-wizards at the cutting edge of “artificial intelligence” seem to be missing something – quite a lot, actually – when it comes to intelligence of the old-fashioned human variety?
Sam Bankman-Fried, the cryptocurrency chap, is awaiting sentence for fraud, money laundering and campaign finance violations; board members of the epically valuable OpenAI have just sent their company into freefall; and dear old Elon Musk, never knowingly out of trouble, is up to his neck in an antisemitism row.
None of these people will struggle for money in the l...