this is a wonderful race: as the machines become more human, the humans are forced to introspect and double down on what it means to be human. One could almost call it the human race. (ba dum tss)
I've had my own problems with proving my own humanity[0]. With this AI wave, I also took a stab at enumerating what machines/AI can't do: https://lspace.swyx.io/p/agi-hard
- Empathy and Theory of Mind (building up an accurate mental model of conversational participants, what they know and how they react)
- Understand the meaning of art rather than the content of art
I've had my own problems with proving my own humanity[0]. With this AI wave, I also took a stab at enumerating what machines/AI can't do: https://lspace.swyx.io/p/agi-hard
- Empathy and Theory of Mind (building up an accurate mental model of conversational participants, what they know and how they react)
- Understand the meaning of art rather than the content of art
- Physics and Conceptual intuition
Another related paper readers might like is Melanie Mitchell's Why AI is Harder than We Think: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2104.12871.pdf
(sidenote, always love Maggie's illustrations, it is a real super in a world of text and ai art)
0: https://www.swyx.io/proving-our-humanity