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Well said. I must say, I don't really relate to the "man vs. machine" narrative here. Maybe it's just because I'm not taking the long view (the one in which the machines inevitably rise up and enslave us? or in which "we" become machines?), but all I see is wonderful positives: as you say, the fact that we can now fly in metal tubes doesn't diminish us as humans for not having wings and jet engines. Look at us humans: we can fly now!

I really enjoyed this article from Garry Kasparov in the New York Review of Books. Spoiler: it's [partially] about how the best chess player in the world is a really good human paired with a really good computer. http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/feb/11/the-che...

So let's all join hands with the machines and sing Kumbayah ... all watched over by machines of loving grace... of course, yes, this is a medium-term view. The long-term, I suppose, probably belongs to the machines.




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