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The computer programs used in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) are highly specialized. They can for example fly airplanes, play chess or assemble cars in controlled industrial environments.
A research team from Gothenburg, Sweden, has now been able to create an AI programme that can learn how to solve problems in many different areas. The programme is designed to imitate certain aspects of children's cognitive development. Traditional AI programmes lack the versatility and adaptability of human intelligence. For example, they cannot come into a new home and cook, clean and do laundry. In artificial general intelligence (AGI), which is a new field within AI, scientists try to create computer programmes with a generalised type of intelligence, enabling them to solve problems in vastly different areas.
(Score: 3, Funny) by EvilJim on Thursday September 25 2014, @04:44AM
by today's standards, quite possibly, you would be taken from your family and given to another couple who have nothing to gain by bringing you up properly. I was hit with the wooden spoon plenty of times, once it broke as well, managed to avoid the cane at school and I turned out ok... if you consider 'ok' to include a desire to beat other people's kids... :)