## [Natural-language understanding](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural-language_understanding)

[AI Can Recognize Images. But Can It Understand This Headline?](https://www.wired.com/story/ai-can-recognize-images-but-understand-headline/)
> New approaches foster hope that computers can comprehend paragraphs, classify email as spam, or generate a [satisfying end to a short story - pdf](https://knowen-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/attachment/file/3885/AI%2BCan.pdf)


- [Machines Beat Humans on a Reading Test. But Do They Understand?](https://www.quantamagazine.org/machines-beat-humans-on-a-reading-test-but-do-they-understand-20191017/)

>A tool known as BERT can now beat humans on advanced reading-comprehension tests. But it's also revealed how far AI has to go.

## Facial recognition

[Who’s using your face? The ugly truth aboutfacial recognition](https://knowen-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/attachment/file/3883/Who_E2_80_99s%2Busing%2Byour%2Bface_%2BThe%2Bugly%2Btruth%2Babout%2Bfacial%2Brecognition%2B_%2BFinancial%2BTimes.pdf)