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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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(Score: 1) by rigrig on Thursday December 17 2015, @01:42PM
How can a program be better than humans at recognizing figures, isn't the goal to get the result a human would pick?
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(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Thursday December 17 2015, @03:01PM
The real goal is to pick the what the human intended when he wrote it. Some people have trouble doing that with their own handwriting.
(Score: 2) by tibman on Thursday December 17 2015, @03:07PM
Better than the human average maybe?
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(Score: 2) by wonkey_monkey on Thursday December 17 2015, @03:46PM
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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