&gt;&gt;&gt; the point of near-human levels of learning<p>Argh, these days, AI is like NoSQL a few years ago. The magical buzzword taken to an extreme level.<p>When do you think it will happen, the point at which AI will overtake most of the jobs done by humans? By the time it happens, the society will change significantly. Significantly enough so that it&#x27;s probably pointless to guess. Will the society adapt to the change? Well, it has adapted more or less successfully to the changes so far.<p>Even when it happens, there will always be human factor. Humans are social, they need interaction with other humans.<p>We should probably slow down with all the &#x27;AI will take everything away!&#x27; drama (which makes nice headlines which contributed significantly to this buzz, thanks a lot). We should remind ourselves, that we don&#x27;t even have self-driving cars in mainstream (or, in software terms, &#x27;production&#x27;).<p>We are talking about a massive leap here, required in both society to accept the change and the technology to make it feasible beyond cool demos. By the time this happens, who knows. Maybe half of the humanity will go extinct because of WW3?<p>I get the hacker mentality, that we should try to change the world and everything. But sometimes, it&#x27;s good to stop for a moment and do a reality check.