First artificial intelligence came for our board games, and we were not all that bothered, because the strategic placement of little black-and-white counters did not seem like much of a transferable skill. Then it came for our poetry and fiction, and again we were not terribly fussed, since it had no feel for narrative tension and its scansion was all over the place.
Now, though, it has come for another skillset we once considered to be uniquely and characteristically human, and this time there may be some genuine cause for discomfort.
A study by researchers in Britain and Germany suggests that some of the most advanced multi-purpose AIs are now better than most humans at coming up with unconventional uses for a fork. If
