"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

"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.