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.
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.
As fast as AI may be moving now relative to the past decades, it’s still not moving at a pace where it displaces entire software platforms overnight. It’s all very gradual, and I don’t think we’ll have a hard time keeping pace (famous last words? )
We do stay abreast of relevant AI developments and we try to get involved with technologies that can have an immediate impact on our #1 priority: civilized discussion.
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