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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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Not recommended for children.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by wonkey_monkey on Thursday December 17 2015, @10:46AM
On a Turing test – a thought experiment devised in 1950 by British computer scientist Alan Turing to compare a machine's ability to think to that of a human – BPL consistently performed well. People could not tell the difference between figures drawn by the computer or human participants.
So there was a "can humans spot the computer" element, but it was about what the computer output, rather than how it responded to input.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 17 2015, @11:37AM
It gets worrying once computers can solve unexpected problems. Until then they are mere servants and we should be worried more about people in power than their machines.