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Quote of the Day: Hubbard on Automation
“One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.” — Elbert Hubbard
Are you ordinary? Or are you extraordinary? What do you think, Ricochet? Can an extraordinary man be replaced by a machine? Will it happen in the future?
Published in Group Writing
Nope. But in context, could a computer easily be programmed to do what you do?
I always go back to Walker Percy on this issue. Why is it so much easier for a small child to pick up the complexity of language, than it was for the team that programmed Watson to play Jeopardy?
A beer-drinking computer? I don’t think so . . .