I am taking an alternative approach to make sense of HN stories for Chinese readers. As a regular HN reader, I manually summarize the topic of top stories and translate them into Chinese. The motivation is to lower the startup/tech news sharing barriers. Link - http://geektell.com/
Is it possible to extend the idea with equations (handwritten) as input, and produce the corresponding Latex source as output? That would save lots of time.
The group's approach to build cognitive assistant might be on the right way. Rather than build standalone AI, the assistive approach encourages interfacing human brain. During the collaboration between human and the assistant, both will get better understanding about the other. We human don't need computer to work with emotion, but work by understanding our need and satisfy our need just in time.
