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Summary.
In his short story “The Evitable Conflict,” published 75 years ago, sci-fi writer Isaac Asimov described how machines might run entire industries. Today, there is mounting evidence that AI can outperform humans on many individual cognitive tasks. An experiment by a team from Cambridge University suggests that large language models (LLMs) can outperform humans in most tasks including product design, cost control, and market intelligence.