No, machines can't read better than humans

Computers are built to process data, but there's a particular form of information so rich and dense in meaning that it's beyond the full comprehension of even the most advanced AI. It's also one that you and I process intuitively and deal in every day: language. Understanding the written and spoken word is a big an important challenge for computer scientists. This month, a small milestone was passed when a pair of teams from Microsoft and Alibaba independently created AI programs that can outperform humans in a reading comprehension test. As you might expect, this news resulted in a flurry of coverage.