There's an old quote I recall - "never say something is impossible, you'll just piss off the people already doing it."

Remember the good old days (early July of this year) when it was commonly acknowledged that AI wasn't particularly good at math? Well, Google DeepMind just received gold level marks at the International Mathematical Olympiad. What's really interesting about this accomplishment is that the AI did NOT require that the problem to be solved was first translated into a programming language - it was all done using natural language… this is HUGE I think. And, clearly the AI is demonstrating high level reasoning and abstract thinking (should that be in quotes?) as well.

To go back to the quote; it seems increasingly fraught to argue that AI can't do something "human"… maybe not now but by next week? Perhaps. All swords are double sided… this sword is particularly sharp I think.