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Not necessarily. Obviously playing Kasparov on the board requires more planning ability than managing a McDonald's but look at where chess bots are now.

There's much more to being human than our "cognitive abilities"

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> Obviously playing Kasparov on the board requires more planning ability than managing a McDonald's

Not obvious and in fact I think the opposite is way more likely. Chess is well-defined and self-contained in a way that managing a restaurant with fleshy customers never will be.

That's true. I should clarify by saying I meant that a human playing on par with Kasparov obviously has the planning ability to manage a McDonald's

But that is also non-obvious. Even managing human employees — let alone customers — required a planning ability related to emotional intelligence that many a person with good pure logic ability simply lacks.

Also, there will be hundreds of disparate tasks that are happening in parallel, and even humans still make up frameworks to discover most urgent/important work that needs to be done first.

Conjecture: the first AI to successfully manage a McDonald’s will be a Gemini.

They no longer have to limit themselves to forking software but can do a global Google Burgers in a single prompt. It will no doubt be a huge success before shut down.

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