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Comment author: FeepingCreature 06 September 2013 07:38:45PM *  5 points [-]

A program that literally wants to do what you mean is a complicated thing. No realistic progression of updates to Google Maps, say, gets anywhere close to building an accurate world-model describing its human users, plus having a built-in goal system that happens to specifically identify humans in its model and deduce their extrapolated goals.

Is it just me, or does this sound like it could grow out of advertisement services? I think it's the one industry that directly profits from generically modelling what users "want"¹and then delivering it to them.

[edit] ¹where "want" == "will click on and hopefully buy"