Weekly Market Insights June 30 - July 3, 2025

This week on The Personal Wealth Coach, Jake takes a deep dive into the mysterious, sometimes maddening world of artificial intelligence—from its noisy origins in 1950s sound-cancellation algorithms to modern-day machine learning missteps (like inventing Venmo accounts and promising deliveries in blazers). Along the way, you'll get a quick market update, a nod to the elusive “Big Beautiful Bill Act,” and a crash course on how AI really thinks—or rather, mimics thinking.

With humor, history, and a healthy dose of skepticism, Jake demystifies AI’s not-so-generative answers, explains why your phone’s text predictions might be smarter than your investment chatbot, and reveals why scuttled German warships are vital to clean scientific research. If you've ever wondered whether AI is the future or just confidently wrong, this episode is for you.

This episode was recorded on July 3rd, 2025.

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