Intelligence is as intelligence does. If it helps you feel unique and special to sit there and tell yourself “AI can’t think!”, then go ahead. And sure, AI doesn’t think exactly the way you do. It probably never will, in the same sense that a submarine will never paddle its fins and an airplane will never flap its wings. But a submarine can go... See more

Intelligence is as intelligence does. If it helps you feel unique and special to sit there and tell yourself “AI can’t think!”, then go ahead. And sure, AI doesn’t think exactly the way you do. It probably never will, in the same sense that a submarine will never paddle its fins and an airplane will never flap its wings. But a submarine can go... See more

People who think about this fact in terms of its impact on economics are thinking way too small. When people ask “Will AI take my job?”, they remind me of a Sioux tribesman in 1840 wondering if the white settlers would take his buffalo. The answer is “Yes, but you’re really asking the wrong question”. For the white settlers who conquered the Great... See more