This is easy to answer: no. Watson doesn't represent a big advance, it's another narrow AI system, and this article is a good example of how the capabilities o

This is easy to answer: no. Watson doesn't represent a big advance, it's another narrow AI system, and this article is a good example of how the capabilities of such systems are always over-interpreted or misunderstood. The classic problem with narrow AIs is that they don't scale to a larger system, except perhaps in trivial/uninteresting ways.