Your Robot Assistant Will Be Able to Do What No Human Can Do

Your computer will be an assistant that helps you through the day, will answer your questions before you ask them or even before you realize you have a question, says Ray Kurzweil, author of How to create a mind.

If you really want to understand what’s on a written page right now we need a human to read it. That’s very slow. We will get, I believe technology very soon thatcan actually do a pretty good job of reading natural language documents. Watson shows that that’s feasible. If you consi...