Quality data and Hapsburg AI

That’s from the June 7 issue of ValueLine. I subscribed after I saw this clip:

Not even sure what year that’s from.

Quality has been on my mind.

Quality … you know what it is, yet you don’t know what it is. But that’s self-contradictory. But some things are better than others, that is, they have more quality. But when you try to say what the quality is, apart from the things that have it, it all goes poof! There’s nothing to talk about. But if you can’t say what Quality is, how do you know what it is, or how do you know that it even exists? If no one knows what it is, then for all practical purposes it doesn’t exist at all. But for all practical purposes it really does exist. What else are the grades based on? Why else would people pay fortunes for some things and throw others in the trash pile? Obviously some things are better than others … but what’s the betterness? … So round and round you go, spinning mental wheels and nowhere finding anyplace to get traction. What the hell is Quality? What is it?

As the guy says in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. At the Smithsonian you can see Pirsig’s motorcycle:

I was at See’s Candy the other day:

Recently I read this book:

There are some interesting case studies (although they skew a bit Euro):

Will AI ever produce something of “quality”? I have yet to see it.