Artificial Intelligence

http://wired.com/news/technology/0,71425-0.html?tw=wn_index_6

"By 2016, we will have an AI program that can read 80 percent of the factual
content on the web," Mitchell wagered. If that's achieved, it would
dramatically change the face of AI, he said, creating a never-ending
language-learning system fueled by the web. By extracting more and more
knowledge from the web, it would read better every day, forever improving
itself, he said."