A new robot can solve problems better than humans.
By Raif Karerat
WASHINGTON, DC: Don’t look now, but our future robotic overlords just got smarter than us.
Researchers from Microsoft and the University of Science and Technology of China built a deep learning machine that outperforms the average human on the types of problems that have always been toughest for computers, according to their recently released study.
The test contained three categories of questions: logic questions (patterns in sequences of images); mathematical questions (patterns in sequences of numbers); and verbal reasoning questions (questions dealing with analogies, classifications, synonyms and antonyms), reported The Observer.
It is this last category that has interested Huazheng Wang and pals at the University of Science and Technology of China and Bin Gao at Microsoft Research in Beijing. Traditionally, pose a verbal reasoning question to a natural language processing machine and its performance will be poor, much worse than the average human ability, according to the M.I.T. Technology Review.
The researchers had the deep learning machine and 200 human subjects at Amazon’s Mechanical Turk crowdsourcing facility answer the same verbal questions. The result was that their A.I.-powered system performed better than the average human.
“Our RK model can reach the intelligence level between the people with the bachelor degrees and those with the master degrees, which also implies the great potential of the word embedding to comprehend human knowledge and form up certain intelligence,” the report stated.