How do we know how smart AI really is?

Maths questions. Silly word puzzles. Counting the letter “r” in a sentence. Nicole Kobie reveals how we’re trying to work out exactly how intelligent AI is.

We explore the trends and technologies that are set to shape the future As AI becomes increasingly competent at answering emails, making funny pictures and solving complicated science problems that have long stumped us humans, it raises a question: how smart is it really? And we’re not sure how to answer that yet. The goal of companies such as OpenAI isn’t to ease the lives of office workers – though that draws investors such as Microsoft, hence the sudden focus on productivity tools – but to build artificial general intelligence (AGI). This is defined in a multitude of ways, but OpenAI describes it as “highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work”. Alongside AGI, we have ideas such as human-level AI, expert AI and superintelligent AI. All…

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