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Cliff Notes: computers can now answer IQ type questions on par with humans that have a bachelor or masters degree.
by SQL2219 11y ago
Cliff Notes: computers can now answer IQ type questions on par with humans that have a bachelor or masters degree.
- JoeAltmaier 11y agoMaybe that means IQ tests are broken? Describe an opera or a play, and ask "Why did Iago plot against Desdemona?" See what that AI can come up with. An answer could be anything from early plot points, to Iago's poor upbringing producing a sociopath, to the political and class climate in the playwright's era stamping the bad guy as an elderly retainer.
- simonhughes22 11y agoEvery time AI makes some advance, people start to denigrate the difficulty of the task. This is a well known pattern in the history of AI.
- JoeAltmaier 11y agoSame with the definition of human vs animal. Tool-making? Oh, Chimps do that. Well how about planning and remembering? Oh, apes do that. Uh, well, making lasers? We're still the only ones that do that, right? Anyway I meant to draw the discussion to context, which AI's are still lightyears away from mastering. They're still rule-following text machines.