The merging of humans and machines is happening now

The merging of machine capability and human consciousness is already happening. Peter Sorger and Ben Gyori are brainstorming with a computer in a laboratory at Harvard Medical School. Their goal is to figure out why a powerful melanoma drug stops helping patients after a few months. But if their approach to human-computer collaboration is successful, it could generate a new approach to fundamentally understanding complexities that may change not only how cancer patients are treated, but also how innovation and discovery are pursued in countless other domains. At the heart of their challenge is the crazily complicated hairball of activity going on inside a cancer cell - or in any cell.