I think we'll likely continue to grapple with this one and have it increasingly brought to our attention, at each point along the way, just how poor our grasp is on what either competence or comprehension actually are when we're trying to embed them in machines or software. It's one thing to transfer a sort of artificial template of competence directly from a person to a machine (depending on how well they engineer it for what variety of problem sets), neural networks seem to suggest at least that with some degree of coaching some level of pattern recognition is possible but even so it seems quite narrow and brittle for the time being and may very well stay that way for decades to come.
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“Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word "love" here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace - not in the infantile American sense of being made happy but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth.” - James Baldwin