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empath75 on March 12, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: AlphaGo beats Lee Sedol 3-0 [video]

There used to be jobs for thousands of people to do what pocket calculators do. Those jobs have been gone for decades. Humans entirely replaced by machines. So, yes, calculators are superhuman.

david-given on March 12, 2016 [–]

Oddly enough, these people you mention were referred to as 'computers'. (Because they performed computations.)

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