There are no cars that drive itself yet, no machine that can understand human language, in the marketplace.
But,this week, there was some promising news, about NELL and the Google Car. While this is great news, it might take years, probably decades, to iron out the contextual wrinkles, for widespread use.
Many popular Science Fiction books and Movies, posit a perilous future, with machines taking control over human beings. Such a possibility make books interesting, yet is still a fictional future. We need imagination to augment the abilities of humans, with the possibilities provided by machines.
Curation is one such application. Statistical machine learning could help solve the clustering problem very well. Having known the cluster that you are interested in, by constructing curator pools, machines can be deployed to do the "hill climbing". ... more like Don Norman writes, in "Design without designers".
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