AI is getting brainier: when will the machines leave us in the dust? | Ian Sample
by Ian Sample from on (#2FZ9F)
To usher in the 'Singularity' - when computers match human intelligence - superintelligent one trick ponies like DeepMind must become jacks of all trades
The road to human-level artificial intelligence is long and wildly uncertain. Most AI programs today are one-trick ponies. They can recognise faces, the sound of your voice, translate foreign languages, trade stocks and play chess. They may well have got the trick down pat, but one-trick ponies they remain. Google's DeepMind program, AlphaGo, can beat the best human players at Go, but it hasn't a clue how to play tiddlywinks, shove ha'penny, or tell one end of a horse from the other.
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