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Re:The unnecessary demise of Barnes and Noble by hueving on Friday February 16, 2018 @12:57AM (#16390242)
>But AI is a unique threat because it can match (and then quickly absolutely dominate) humans for any kind of work that requires cognitive power.

Only at very specific tasks. As you point out later there is no evidence that AI general intelligence where it needs to be for this actually to be a threat to humans who can adapt to unexpected circumstances.

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Re:The unnecessary demise of Barnes and Noble by NoGravitas on Friday February 16, 2018 @10:21AM (#16392918)
General AI that can totally replace humans in a job isn't really the problem. The real issue is specialized AI that lets one person do work that previously required five or ten, whether because it increases their productivity directly, or the human is working as an AI-minder, letting them do the routine stuff, supervising them for quality, and taking over when they hit unexpected circumstances.
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