The gap between AI and human intelligence is real, vast, and easy to feel.

But the comparison itself may be a fundamental mistake from the start.

Neither side can truly fathom the other, and that's not a problem to solve.

Let's start here: We've spent years measuring the distance between human and artificial intelligence without asking whether the two occupy the same space at all.

We are obsessed with the gap, both technologically and philosophically. How far ahead is AI? How fast is it moving? When does artificial general intelligence arrive? OK, these feel like reasonable questions, until you examine the assumption buried inside them: that human intelligence and artificial intelligence exist on the same continuum, separated by some place along a line and not by something more fundamental and different.

The gap is real. I've written about it, felt it, watched others wallow in it. That deflation when AI produces in seconds what took you hours. But somewhere in our fixation on the size of the gap, we stopped asking whether it was even the right thing to measure.

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