AI scientist Melanie Mitchell has written, "AI is harder than we think because we are largely unconscious of the complexity of our own thought processes."
But what if the very definition of what is "human-level" intelligence is changing? What if AI is no longer measured against the quality of human thought and action in the real world, but rather the all-too-predictable behavior of spending all day staring into a smartphone?
...The divide still exists between the easy and the hard stuff that humans and computers do, and perhaps it will never be conquered by AI. But human thought is increasingly sub-optimal to navigate a digital world. Long before AGI happens, the world of humans will probably arrive at a place where most activities are far better carried out by machines.
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