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vatsachakyesterday at 8:44 PM2 repliesview on HN

Not necessarily. Obviously playing Kasparov on the board requires more planning ability than managing a McDonald's but look at where chess bots are now.

There's much more to being human than our "cognitive abilities"


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pamcaketoday at 2:28 AM

> Obviously playing Kasparov on the board requires more planning ability than managing a McDonald's

Not obvious and in fact I think the opposite is way more likely. Chess is well-defined and self-contained in a way that managing a restaurant with fleshy customers never will be.

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baqyesterday at 8:55 PM

Conjecture: the first AI to successfully manage a McDonald’s will be a Gemini.