What I have been reading lately

Here are a few of the articles that have caught my attention recently:

Googler and AI guru Peter Norvig on what artificial intelligence has been able to do and what was a surprise ([1])
Watson's performance in Jeopardy was impressive, but even Google and Bing get the right answers to Jeopardy questions more often than the average human ([1])
The Google Translate app is downright amazing. Almost a babel fish in my ear, just remarkable. ([1])
Kicking off a project to rewrite code is a really bad idea, but people want to do it all the time ([1] [2])
Excellent answer on why Dropbox succeeded ([1])
Dilbert on the morality of using web click data. Ouch! ([1])
Old but good Slate article on why we don't have ubiquitous free Wifi. Makes me sad. ([1])
Enjoyable rant against stealth mode startups ([1])
Internet investment funds and unprofitable companies going public? The dot-com bubble is back, baby! ([1] [2])