[aeturnum]

What a silly conclusion. The fact that a human called his land line does not mean M (the thing in messenger) isn't an AI. At best, it proves that M has humans who work for M making phone calls.

I don't have any insight or opinion about the question of how human M is, but this article seems makes a bunch of assumptions that make the whole investigation somewhat silly.

[azernik]

I think the distinction is a philosophical question. Are they humans who run errands for the AI, or is the AI a tool the humans use?

Perhaps better to think of them as coworkers, each specializing in their strengths.

The question is, just how much of the workload is the machine capable of handling? Because I think that's the big indicator of scalability.