The Busy Child/Rev II

BRT has often talked about AI with quiet trepidation as this tech differs from anything man has created thus far due to the fact it's open ended in terms of its ability to aggregate intelligence at speeds far beyond life as we know it. With this in mind, AI is now comparable to a 4 year old in intelligence, in 10 years, how advanced will the busy child be?

A series of tests designed to challenge some of the best AI systems in the world has pitted them against the human IQ (Intelligence Quotient) test to find that their intelligence currently sits at the level of a 4-year-old child.

Conducted by a team from the University of Illinois in the US, the tests found that our most advanced AI systems match the average toddler in terms of smartness. When the age was upped to seven, the software programs found themselves well beaten. For now - ed

Click here for the paper on AI IQ circa 2016