About whether AlphaGo's Go wins signal intelligent machines will upend all intellectual work.
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About whether AlphaGo's Go wins signal intelligent machines will upend all intellectual work.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
our world is close to being completely upheaved by intelligent machines, in all areas of intellectual pursuit
I could see myself losing the passion for software engineering and design if an AI can do it better. That would have to be a general AI, and hopefully another couple of decades away.
I wonder if I could enjoy movies or books written by an AI. Scary to think about the psychological manipulation it would be capable of, especially if it lives inside a Google or Facebook datacenter.