Artificial intelligence is still a child - Computer Sweden

When we think us how a future society will look like, it is easy to imagine artificial intelligences in different ways communicate with people. But how smart are they really in the current situation? A group of researchers led by Robert Sloan at the University of Illinois has asked the question, and the answer is disappointing for those who yearn to escape to converse with his fellows.

Class=”paragraphIntro”> system investigated is Conceptnet 4, an artificial intelligence built by MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), which is considered one of the brightest in the world today. You let the system answer questions from an IQ test for young children, and the results were found to vary widely, especially when it came to questions about common sense.

– We are is still very far from programs with common sense and an artificial intelligence that could have the same degree of understanding as an eight-year old, said Robert Sloan for Computerworld.

The purpose of the survey has been to arrive at the problem areas that need to be most focused on. It turns out that today’s artificial intelligence does not have any major problems with language testing or the ability to see similarities. However, the results were significantly worse when questions like “why?” prepared. According to Robert Sloan as one of the greatest challenges to improve the review of today’s artificial intelligences, because they lack common sense. The current system is very difficult to answer questions that people may seem obvious, such as why ice is cool.

– Everyone knows we have a lot of things . As babies we crawl around and pull things and learn that things fall. Then we draw in other things and learn that dogs and cats do not like to be pulled in the tail, says Robert Sloan.

Conceptnet 4 Mo not benefit in tails, but according to Stanley Coren of the University of British Columbia so corresponds to a dog’s intelligence level a two-year man, whom he wrote about in the book “How Dogs Think”.

It had might was a small consolation, if now Conceptnet 4 had feelings.