Why Do Computers Still Have a Long Way to Go?

We all know Google, Yahoo, and other search engines don’t necessarily provide the information were are looking for. Computers can solve complex math problems in seconds, store and manage lots of information, and beat the best chess players. Yet they still lack an understanding of context; even the dumbest of us can easily decode ambiguous situations, because we perceive everything contextually.

Computer are still very exact. Although Google has made multiple breakthroughs in helping programs understand the virtually limitless information on the net, things still go wrong. For example, I wrote about the “.xxx” domain being proposed as mandatory for porn sites. Vin Diesel was on my title. Thus, when someone searched for “vin diesel porn sites” (see image), she (or he) was led here.

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