Many things can be automated with computers. What are the things that they do not do well and still need that human touch?<p>Bonus. How long before they don't suck at said things?
1. I believe, computers will probably never match human capacity for empathy.<p>2. What in philosophy is described as soul or consciousness, it could probably never evolve to have it.<p>3. Computers may become adept at meta-stuff, and self-awareness but they would probably still lack the said soul.<p>4. Even if they ever evolve their consciousness, it would never match ours, since humans live in a perception dimension which almost never matches reality ( reality itself is evolving, or so it seems ). With that, if we tried to feed in rules or algorithms to model learning so consciousness could evolve, it would still be off mark from the feeling of consciousness which we so profoundly seek to understand.
Photo 1: A man drinking water.
Photo 2: An elephant drinking water.
Photo 3: A small bird drinking water from a water pipe.<p>A computer cannot figure out that the three photos contains the same verb.<p>(Ref: <a href="http://www.quora.com/How-intelligent-is-AI-now" rel="nofollow">http://www.quora.com/How-intelligent-is-AI-now</a>)
Well, the thing they absolutely do not do is "that human touch". The more things get computerized, the more we miss real people. ("For a list of the ways that technology has failed to improve our lives, press 2.")<p>When will computers do that well? Never.