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Artificial Intelligence that Imitates Children’s Learning

posted by n1 on Thursday September 25 2014, @03:21AM   Printer-friendly
from the we'll-need-day-care-for-the-ai dept.

AnonTechie writes:

From ScienceDaily:

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.

 
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  • (Score: 2) by aristarchus on Thursday September 25 2014, @07:19AM

    by aristarchus (2645) on Thursday September 25 2014, @07:19AM (#98123) Journal

    Beating on sentient algorithms is not really going to improve things for anyone. But if they could cook, and clean their own rooms, that would be progress.

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