‘Human Beings Are Soon Going to Be Eclipsed’(nytimes.com)
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‘Human Beings Are Soon Going to Be Eclipsed’
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/13/opinion/ai-chatgpt-consciousness-hofstadter.html
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Human beings were already eclipsed in the middle of the previous century, when the early digital computers began to do arithmetic better than any human can do.
Why stop there? Humans were already eclipsed between 3800-3500 BCE when oxen began to be used for ploughing instead of people working the land with hand tools.
Subtitled "Why Douglas Hofstadter Is Changing His Mind on A.I."