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  • By: Will Knight
  • Narrated by: Elizabeth Wells
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By: Will Knight
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For all the remarkable progress being made in artificial intelligence, and warnings about the upheaval this might bring, the smartest computer would still struggle to make it through the eighth grade.
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Fair assessment and reporting, but now outdated

More than a soundbite, but short enough to be called a soundmouthful. Reports upon the result of an AI program against 8th grade science students and points out that it was a modified test of MCQs only as the computer could not cope with diagrams. Adduces the information that Microsoft GO mastered visio-spatial problems 10 years earlier than predicted and that any truly AI implementation would have to incorporate a variety of strategies and capabilities to succeed. My favourite quote "Intelligence is one word, but it means many things".
I think it is outdated as sounds like reporting on machine learning rather than neural network.

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