It shouldn’t be to surprising to anybody following the AI scene but recently the AI of Alibaba and Microsoft have beaten humans in a reading test. Note: by a small margin, it scored 82.44 in the exact answer category beating the human score of 82.304.
Sources:
https://www.ft.com/content/8763219a-f9bc-11e7-9b32-d7d59aace167
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5271343/The-machine-read-better-you.html
Still a ways off, but it’s going come sooner than you think that Q&A style websites/forums such as Stack Exchange, Quora) could have an AI component to answer users questions. You should definitely factor this in your business plan if you’re planning to build a forum/q&a website or even maybe a community website.
What are your thoughts on this?