Researchers reach human parity in conversational speech recognition
The term "human parity" refers to a comparison of the error rate, which is a single scalar summarizing performance in terms of mistakes made.  It says nothing about the <i>kind</i> of mistakes, and I can easily imagine that machines qualitatively do not make at all the same kind of mistakes as humans.  I'd be curious to know if the kind of mistakes machines make might strike human listeners as quite stupid, but maybe not.. many algorithms are getting better at taking into context and prior knowledge into account.