If machines are capable of doing almost any work humans can do, what will humans do?

Over the past 20 years Artificial Intelligence (AI) has made a remarkable progress. While AI has been proven to be much more difficult than believed by its early pioneers, its inexorable progress over the past 50 years suggests that H. Simon may have been right when he wrote in 1956 “machines will be capable… of doing any work a man can do.” If machines are capable of doing almost any work humans can do, what will humans do?

Tags: AI, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Moshe Y Vardi, School of Computer Science