>You. Are a smart cookie. Smart? Aware. You are an aware cookie. I think AI will reach that simplicity. Isn't it inevitable/inescapable, pretty much?
The fundamental flaw in the fear of AI is in assumption that human capabilities are simulatable by machines. Gödel said that one of the lesser appreciated philosophical consequences of his incompleteness theorem is that while any reasoning machine will not be able to answer alll mathematical questions about the system at hand, the human mind, through categorial intuition, can escape these boundaries and build forever outward eventually. He believed that the phenomenological method (Husserl) could be used in conjunction with empiricism to answer any formulatable mathematical question - and that machines could not do so. If this is true and I believe it to be, AI may take over all jobs which do not require such intuitive creativity, leaving the opportunity for an ideal symbiosis between humans and machines. This would be the preferable future.