WATSON vs Dr. Watson

Isn't it ironic that the machine that is now being built to replace people, shares a name with Dr. Watson, from the Sherlock Holmes series?

Dr. Watson was the storyteller, and was the human piece of the story. Detective Holmes was logical, like Data or Spock from the Star Trek series. Watson balanced him out.

Now we have a computer that is built to behave in the human sciences. The goal is to make a computer that can understand natural language. Its goal is to be a quick and correct as the ultimate machine, homo sapien sapeins.  Do we really want machines to be equal with humans? Do we want them to be better than humans? I understand the whole idea WATSON started was "can this be done" but wasn't that the same question Frankenstein started with? Will we be better off as animals, if machines can do that which makes us unique.