THIS ONE on new advances in Human Computer Interface. I think that things are advanced enough to the point that it's worth thinking about how all this will get applied to extant genres of games such as RPGs.
Really nice write up in the New York Times HERE and thoughts by Jonah Lehrer HERE.
I really hope some day that these kinds of programs can be used as part of AI for things like computer RPGs. Mark and I meditated on this a bit in our interview at Grinding to Valhalla.