If we are asking, as human beings, whether we have the intelligence to compete with AI , the answer is: not much longer. Because we have come to define intelligence in ways that ensure AI will soon surpass human intelligence, writes Robert Hunt.
Will AI ever be able to match this level of pattern recognition? Will robotics ever be able to cast the line and retrieve the lure to catch a redfish? The answer is yes. This kind of multimodal sensory input and analysis is an active area of research, and advances are being made rapidly. Moreover, advances in robotics will create a general-purpose robot capable of putting a lure on a line and casting it and retrieving it, probably more accurately than any human.
The humanities are critical because they ask directly what it means to be human as it is discovered by studying human-to-human interaction with humans both living and long passed away. The question of what it means to be human from a humanities perspective is the single most important question in an age of AI.