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and what if there's only a Nespresso machine, a Keurig machine, instant, a french press, a moka pot, or a cappuccino machine (we can argue if an americano is actually coffee, but if that's what the house has, and no drip machine + accoutrements, you're not getting anything else)? Human or bot, that's a lot of possibilities to deal with, but for a bold human unfamiliar with those, they're just a YouTube video away (multiple ones if it's a fancy cappuccino machine). Until AI can learn to make coffee or change an oil filter on a 1997 GMC from watching a YouTube video, it'd be hard to consider it human-grade, even if it has been trained on all of YouTube, which assumedly Google has done. There are certainly things people do on YouTube that I couldn't do after a lot of intense practice, though, so I'm not totally convinced that's the right standard. It doesn't cost millions of hours and dollars of training and fine tuning time for me to, say, be able to tie a bow tie from a YouTube video though, even if it does take me a couple of tries.



It probably shouldn't continue to surprise me how often people's "AI benchmarks" exclude a significant fraction of actual, living, humans from being "human-grade".




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