Google Translate is Amazing Now, and That Should Terrify You - Geek.com

The thinking goes that machines are dumb, and for them to do cool shit, like translating, driving a car, or winning Go, we need to make them smart. And the only way we know how to do that efficiently is to teach them how to learn -- just like humans. If you had to sit and explain everything you ever learned to a computer, it would probably take hundreds of years. Yeah, *YOU* learned it in less, but you had a couple things going for you. Your brain, for example, has a somewhat intuitive understanding of physics.