​I asked ChatGPT what are ten ways in which humans outperform machines, and it answered me: consciousness and self-awareness, creativity and imagination, emotions and feelings, flexibility and adaptability, intuition and judgment, moral reasoning and ethics, social interaction and communication, purpose and motivation, learning and development and physical capabilities and sensory experience. And it finished by adding: "These differences highlight the unique qualities of human beings and the limitations of machines, despite their advanced abilities in specific areas.”

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What a list... However, instead of reassuring me, it made me feel that we have every right to be scared. We have been neglecting and even denying many of our innate human capabilities, and we have been instead focused on developing the skills in which machines can indeed do better than us. That may have served us well until now but it won't be enough today. No wonder we are scared. It has also made us feel empty, numb, cynical, and discouraged.

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