Saturday, 1 September 2018

Human intelligence and AI are vastly different — so let’s stop comparing them


These days, it’s easy to believe arguments that artificial intelligence has become as smart as the human mind—if not smarter. Google released a speaking AI that dupes its conversational partners that it’s human. DeepMind, a Google subsidiary, created an AI that defeated the world champion at the most complicated board game. More recently, AI proved it can be as accurate as trained doctors in diagnosing eye diseases. And there are any number of stories that warn about a near future where robots will drive all humans into unemployment. Everywhere you look, AI is conquering new domains, tasks and skills that were previously thought to be the…

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https://ift.tt/2ovOL5e Ben Dickson September 01, 2018 at 06:00AM

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