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The Jeopardy-playing computer, Watson prompts questions about the future of knowledge. What can we teach machines? What will Watson's heirs be capable of in ten or twenty years? And where does that leave humans? Though Watson is deaf and blind, can't recognize jokes and ΓÇÿthinksΓÇÖ Toronto is a US city. People shouldn't have a false sense of security. The IBM machine is following a spectacular learning curve. Within a year or two, machines like Watson will be much smarter, faster, more clever with words, and will be crashing into the workplace.