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Artificial Intelligence Passes the Turing Test of Penmanship

posted by martyb on Thursday December 17 2015, @10:20AM   Printer-friendly
from the better-improve-your-penmanship dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

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: 2) by wonkey_monkey on Thursday December 17 2015, @03:46PM

    by wonkey_monkey (279) on Thursday December 17 2015, @03:46PM (#277717) Homepage

    The goal is to recognise the symbols correctly. Humans can't always do it (especially, but not only, if they are unfamiliar with the written language presented), so there's room for improvement.

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