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Stop Asking What Only Humans Can Do

Every day, I see people making the case of ability X or feature Y being ‘uniquely human’, and then proceeding to make it something that we can:

a) use to make fun of AI with,

b) pin our hopes of future employment on it, or

c) console ourselves with that whew, we still have X or Y.

Sometimes all three.

And then, every few months, I watch another one of these …