Algorhithm

'Just over a week ago...the Internet search giant Google announced that it was making a major overhaul of its formula for ranking websites. The company said it was demoting 'low quality' web sites, designed mainly to lure traffic from Google's search engine and attract advertising revenue. It was a move to improve the quality of search, but also an admission that Google, the trusted curator of the web, was being outwitted.' -- Steve Lohr, NY Times

Currently, programmers are trying to retool software to understand human language, and then to outwit and outsmart it. Recently, IBM's Watson soundly defeated two of the best human Jeopardy players at their own game.

Are we going to find ourselves obsolete?