&gt;This is why I think Google is really in a better position to answer these queries, because the knowledge graph allows the context to provide the nuance you are looking for.<p>I agree completely. That&#x27;s why the viv presentation left me a bit unsatisfied. I also had the exact same thought in the middle of their talk : &quot;with google database of concepts, you could do so much more&quot;.<p>But even Google still needs to break the last barrier, and it&#x27;s related to language itself and culture. Every translator and linguistic knows that a language conveys much more than clear information. It is a mental construct that evolved during thousands of years, and keeps evolving, is full of ambiguities than only culture, experience (and a bit of common sense) can solve.<p>The best example of this is to notice how bad automatic translators are.  Guys at google tried to brute-force the problem, with a gigantic database of text, yet the result is absolutely miserable.