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by kolbe 1186 days ago
To add further, these parlor tricks are nothing new. Watson won Jeopardy in 2011, and never produced anything useful. Doing well on the SAT is just another slight-of-hand trick to distract us from the fact that it doesn't really do anything beyond aggregate online information.
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The issue at hand is that a huge number of people make a living by aggregating online information. They might convey this to others via speech, but the 'human touch' isn't always adding anything to the interaction.