There currently exists no machine capable of superhuman feats of intelligence.
It might seem like AI is smarter than humans in some ways.
But thats not a superhuman feat of intellect.
Its trading human attention for machine speed.
Lets usecomputer visionas an example.
it’s possible for you to train an AI model to recognize images of cats.
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The cats-dressed-as-clowns might be in the minority of cat images, but theyre still cats.
Of course, it would be trivial to train an AI to recognize cats dressed as clowns.
But then therell be another edge-case youll have to train the AI for, and one after that.
A human child doesnt suffer from the same problem.
This problem, at scale, is exactly why driverless cars are still not available outside of well-regulated tests.
An AI can imagine, theoretically, all the possible moves in a given amount of time.
And theres no human in the world who can look at another persons face and determine their politics.
We can guess, and AI can often guess more accurately than we do.
But peoples faces dont magically change; their politics often do.
A good way to look atartificial intelligenceis to think of it as a tool.
The ax has superhuman resilience and tree-chopping skills, but you wouldnt call it superhuman.
The same goes for one that can beat us at games.
Machines are great at certain tasks.
But were a long ways away from the emergence of a supreme digital being.
Were going to have to figure things out for ourselves, at least for the time being.
Luckily, we have AI to assist us.
