If AI really does “take over,” I would very happy to spend my days as a Professional Human Loser… In a human intelligence rooted in our bodies. I’m no monk, but I believe deeply in the head, the heart, and the hands. I would like to be the monk that raises his hand and says, ‘Remember. Paulus Berensohn once said, “There’s something that we lose with contemporary technology. Have rueful sense of own inevitable obsolescence, will travel. (He was professional as always, but you could cut the on-set tension with a knife.) Like Kasparov before me, I now make a reasonable living as a professional human loser. Last year, Watson and I even reunited for a TV commercial. Brad and I can both be found in standard college cognitive-science textbooks now, standing behind blue lecterns looking annoyed. Everyone wanted to know What It All Meant, and Watson was a terrible interview, so suddenly I was the one writing think pieces and giving TED Talks. To my surprise, losing to an evil quiz show–playing computer turned out to be a canny career move. While reading Melanie Mitchell’s Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans, I came across this bit from Jeopardy! whiz Ken Jennings’ essay, “ My Puny Human Brain,” about getting beat by a supercomputer:
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