Machines can already outplay us in chess, poker and other games, and now they are becoming better readers as well.
AI programs from both Microsoft and Alibaba outperformed humans earlier this month on a reading comprehension data set developed at Stanford. “Crowdworkers” scraped more than 500 Wikipedia articles to produce more than 100,000 question-and-answer sets for the test.
https://www.geekwire.com/2018/micros...test-1st-time/