Gary Marcus imagines the future of search:
As machines come to better comprehend the pages they read, their utility to us will increase by orders of magnitude. It won’t be just “find me a recipe for chicken noodle soup,” it will be “analyze one hundred recipes for chicken soup and give me the ones with best taste rating among a subset that uses less added salt, and tell me which nearby shops stock the ingredients I don’t already have.” Instead of search being a hit-or-miss proposition, the best search engines will find what you need, when you need it.
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