Debate: AI Excels at Math and Code, but Will It Ever Master Humanistic Judgment?
_onionesque · x · 2026-09-14
dbessner quips that a decade after Obama's "learn to code," AI excels in closed systems like math and coding but will never be great at fields demanding judgment and aesthetic discernment. onionesque pushes back: treating only the legible, benchmarkable residue of a field as the field itself is a barren view—by that measure the humanities were finished long ago.
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