A Game Plan for the AI Boom

Ten years ago, AlphaGo trounced human competitors—and its legacy is still present in today’s most advanced bots.Ten years ago, AlphaGo trounced human competitors—and its legacy is still present in today’s most advanced bots.

Excerpt: "Likewise, employees, managers, students, professors—really all of us—are always learning and learning by failing, or at least we should be. That is useful and worth preserving in plain economic terms. Nobody becomes world-class at anything without at some point being rather terrible at it, and allowing novices who might be less capable than a bot to build up skills is the only way you get experts with human judgment and abilities that surpass any AI.

But more important than that economic rationale is an existential one: To grow or help another do so is a beautiful thing. Some might call it being human."