Science just took us a small step closer to HAL 9000. A new artificial intelligence (AI) program designed by Chinese researchers has beat humans on a verbal IQ test. Scoring well on the verbal section of the intelligence test has traditionally been a tall order for computers, since words have multiple meanings and complex relationships to one another.
But in a new study, the program did better than its human counterparts who took the test. The findings suggest machines could be one small step closer to approaching the level of human intelligence, the researchers wrote in the study, which was posted earlier this month on the online database arXiv, but has not yet been published in a scientific journal. Don't get too excited just yet: IQ isn't the end-all, be-all measure of intelligence, human or otherwise.
For one thing, the test only measures one kind of intelligence (typically, critics point out, at the expense of others, such as creativity or emotional intelligence. Plus, because some test questions can be hacked using some basic tricks, some AI researchers argue that IQ isn't the best way to measure machine intelligence.
[Paper - PDF]: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1505.07909v2.pdf
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 30 2015, @08:42PM
Tork, what are your IQ scores? Are you a Mensa member?
(Score: 4, Funny) by Tork on Tuesday June 30 2015, @08:44PM
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(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 30 2015, @08:47PM
Yep. You should be in Mensa. Good luck.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 30 2015, @10:18PM
Even if it was properly proctored 96th percentile wouldn't be enough.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Tork on Tuesday June 30 2015, @11:21PM
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 01 2015, @09:51AM
You misspelled "Whoosh". [merriam-webster.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 01 2015, @05:00PM