An Advance in Artificial Intelligence Rivals Human Abilities

An Advance in Artificial Intelligence Rivals Human Abilities

Humans and machines were given an image of a novel character (represented atop each grid) and then asked to copy it. By JOHN MARKOFF December 10, 2015 Computer researchers reported artificial-intelligence advances on Thursday that surpassed human capabilities for a narrow set of vision-related tasks. The improvements are noteworthy because so-called machine-vision systems are becoming commonplace in many aspects of life, including car-safety systems that detect pedestrians and bicyclists, as well as in video game controls, Internet search and factory robots. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, New York University and the University of Toronto reported a new type of “one shot” machine learning on Thursday in the journal Science, in which a computer vision program outperformed a group of humans in identifying handwritten characters based on a single example. The…


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