Jon Kleinberg Answers:
There are a lot of things I’d like to see. To take one in particular, I’d like to have computers be able to answer my questions—in a real sense, the way people can. With search tools like Google, you get an experience that is both more and less than what you get from talking to a person. True, no human being has instant access to billions of facts—but unlike Google, people can summarize, paraphrase, and draw inferences from what they know; they can tailor their answer to what they think you know; and they can engage in a dialogue when your question is hard to formulate precisely. (more…)
