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Areas Where Humans Still Have an Edge Over AI
In speaking to hundreds of experts, consumers, and skeptics of AI over the past few years, four strongholds for humans keep coming up:
- Emotion: Understanding, connecting with, and responding sensitively to human feelings.
- Complexity: Navigating ambiguous, broad-context challenges with holistic problem-solving.
- Physicality: Tasks requiring dexterity and interaction with the physical world, particularly where human presence and responsiveness matter.
- Creativity: The ability to generate original, novel ideas and solutions.
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Despite the fanfare surrounding the launch of new AI media-generating technologies, we don’t care much for it as consumers. Spotify now includes AI music in its catalog, but all the big hits are by flesh-and-blood musicians. Very few people are watching AI-generated films, nor do they want to. And although an AI-generated painting recently sold for $1 million, it’s a long way off the $450 million paid for da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi. We value history and scarcity, and these two qualities are beyond AI. ...
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