A Guide to the Times — #2

Where Computers Defeat Humans, and Where They Can’t provides a good overview of the state of artificial intelligence. It concludes:

Understanding and addressing the societal challenges brought on by rapid technological progress remain tasks that no machine can do for us.
- Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson, NYT, March 16, 2016

Of course it follows that humans are significantly more capable than artificially intelligent machines only on the unproven assumption that people are capable of understanding and addressing the challenges brought on by rapid progress.