It's all fun and games until you lose your job to a robot. Likewise superhuman AI already exists in some specific tasks. Machines, for instance, have been super

It's all fun and games until you lose your job to a robot. Likewise superhuman AI already exists in some specific tasks. Machines, for instance, have been superior to humans in facial recognition and matching for 15 years now, if not longer. The speed at which things are improving in other tasks would be considered ludicrous in any other field. Yet people still persist in thinking that it has to be some sentient robot in order to have a huge societal impact. We are on the precipice of many labor intensive but relatively low skill professions going away entirely, and yet people still stress out about synthetic intelligence they can have a conversation with, because it sounds "scarier" to the readership of Wired, which never was anywhere near these imperiled jobs and whose livelihood does not depend on them. But a program that can write crappy-yet-plausible Python code? Now you got their clicks and attention.