Humankind: I am special. Science: No you’re not.

Which discoveries will come after human exceptionalism next?

Vincent Vanhoucke
7 min readJul 27, 2022

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A tiny person at the foot of a giant tree. The tree’s fruits are science lab equipment
“A tiny person at the foot of a giant tree. The tree’s fruits are science lab equipment”- Imagen

Science seems forever bent on crushing our collective ego. The long, winding road going from mankind picturing itself as the central character at the heart of a purpose-built Universe, all the way to today’s understanding that we’re but a clump of stardust in a cold, anonymous…

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Vincent Vanhoucke

I am a Distinguished Scientist at Google, working on Machine Learning and Robotics.