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While the "it will never do as well as humans at this one thing I feel strongly about" bias is still a common one, even on hn, at this point I am fairly certain
by jstummbillig 4y ago
While the "it will never do as well as humans at this one thing I feel strongly about" bias is still a common one, even on hn, at this point I am fairly certain that we will soon all have to live with the fact that we are no longer all that special in regards to, well, absolutely everything.
One of my more interesting realisations over this development is that being human is apparently a religion to a lot of otherwise secular humans.
- pmoriarty 4y ago"we are no longer all that special in regards to, well, absolutely everything" If/when general AI comes about, maybe so. Until then all we've got are a bunch of highly specialized tools/helpers/slaves that may be good (in some sense) at one thing and awful at pretty much everything else. You could argue that humans themselves are an ensemble of such highly specialized parts that are more than the sum of their parts in some ineffable way that's more of a "we know it when we see it" than something that's formalizable. Machines/computers lack that... so far.