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OneEightHundred
Feb 28, 2008

Soon, we will be unstoppable!
The obvious problem with the question is that humans aren't at a "level" of intelligence anyway, and the biggest lesson from the recent advances in AI is that how difficult a problem is to computers has almost nothing to do with how difficult the problems are for humans.

We invented computers in the first place because humans are completely atrocious at mathematics, and more recently, because humans are atrocious at bulk analysis of many types of information. The current state of things is that computers are well on their way to drastically outperforming humans in most analytical tasks. The more difficult thing is synthetic tasks and adaptation, but the former is actually fairly close, provided the task is specific enough and once the nature of the problem is understood. We'll probably have a computer producing symphonies to rival Mozart long before we have a computer with the conversational skills of a teenager.

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