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martyb
on Thursday December 17 2015, @10:20AM
from the better-improve-your-penmanship dept.
from the better-improve-your-penmanship dept.
Sanskrit, Tibetan, Gujarati, and Glagolitic were among 50 handwritten languages researchers used to test a computer program that proved to be as good, or better, than humans at recognizing the figures – a cognitive step for machines, and a leap forward for the potential that coders could build more sophisticated Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the future.
The program, developed by three researchers whose findings were published last week in Science, can recognize handwritten drawings after only viewing the figures a few times and also passed a basic Turing test.
Bad news for outsourcing centers in Gujarat. Hyderabad still safe.
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(Score: 3, Funny) by Zinho on Thursday December 17 2015, @03:19PM
So much for that method of keeping bots out of our forums.
Of course, we're approaching this threshold from the other direction as well; there may well be a day that Neil Harbisson [wikipedia.org] and Steve Mann [wikipedia.org] have an existential crisis when signing up for web forums. [thepunchlineismachismo.com]
The ADA in America would probably protect the rights of people who become cyborgs due to restorative prosthetics [wikipedia.org], but voluntarily enhanced humans may experience discrimination in the future. Early adopters, like body modders, probably know what they're getting into these days; it'll be interesting to see how attitudes shift in response to increased uptake of cybernetic technology.
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