By Tony DokoupilAmid major developments in the field of artificial intelligence, there's a question many of us have been asking ourselves: How long until machines replace us?New systems from Google and Microsoft — plus a Microsoft partner called OpenAI — are capable of doing things we used to think were uniquely human, like creating original art and generating original writing. Sam Zanca, a coder and instructor at General Assembly, a coding school in New York, said AI will "definitely automate the more tedious parts" of his job, "but it's still a long ways away before having a true impact. They just require different forms of labor to sort of babysit them, to train them, to make sure they're working well," Whittaker said