Interesting and cool. It's almost like a magic trick, particularly in the sense that an almost unbelievable result has been achieved through putting in a serio

Interesting and cool. It's almost like a magic trick, particularly in the sense that an almost unbelievable result has been achieved through putting in a serious amount of effort. It's not just a gimmick, though-- projects like this demonstrate the steady creep of progress on seemingly unsolvable problems[1]. But of course, there's thousands of such problems out there, with millions of potential customers ready to make whoever solves one a billionaire, so even if "true" AI fails to appear, odds are good we'll make a fair approximation for specific applications. One thing that popped out at me, however, was the distribution of the human scores: monotonically increasing with age, which was somewhat odd. Shouldn't it be more or less normally distributed? 1. I wouldn't have thought to make a serious attempt towards beating a verbal comprehension test with deep learning; the possibility of succeeding would've seemed tiny in compared to the work. Similar to the notion that trying to prove the Riemann Hypothesis is hard to think of as a real pursuit, at best it's like a quixotic hobby.