talking about A.I. and surrounded by amiable chitchat, I wondered whether, someday soon, conversations with human beings would be deemed lacking if they didn’t exhibit chatbot-like speed and responsiveness. Maybe there are some circles, in tech or elsewhere, where the quality of “the median conversation you can have with a person” is already measur

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The problem isn’t that machines are becoming more human-like, it’s that humans are becoming more machine-like in an effort to keep up.

That’s a completely different definition of expertise.

Expectation:

Fear of machines becoming human

Reality:

We should worry more about humans becoming machines

It turns out that computers are particularly adept at the tasks that we humans find most difficult: crunching equations, solving logical propositions, and other modes of abstract thought. What artificial intelligence finds most difficult are the sensory perceptive tasks and motor skills that we perform unconsciously: walking, drinking from a cup, s

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