Machines of Artificial intelligence are a scientific field that is constantly on the rise. They have been known to easily beat humans in complex calculations and are a good opponent for chess. Now, researchers have gone one step further, making such machines take IQ tests.
IQ tests are widely considered as a legitimate way to test one’s intelligence regardless their ethnic or social background. For that reason, a group of researchers in the University of Illinois decided to run the same test used for a great variety of people, on something nowhere near human: an AI machine constructed in the MIT.
The test the researchers used is aimed at testing a child’s verbal ability with a series of simple questions. It is designed for four-year old children, and the AI machine did just fine with it, especially with questions that had to do with vocabulary. Questions aiming at the candidate’s comprehension were a bit harder for the machine to deal with.
Researchers reckon, after this experiment, that there will be quite some time before AI machines are ready for a robot uprising.
by Jonah Winter, Truth Inside of You.
Waking up is that moment when you begin to understand that what you were taught in school is a language and that language is not something that you can touch. It’s nothing to be afraid of. If anything it’s exciting. It’s kind of like you remember someone pointing at something and saying to you “say puppy” when you were young but because they didn’t tell you that what they were asking you to do is mimick a sound that you heard them make, you thought that they were teaching you what something was. Now you find out that all you were doing was a mimicking a sound that you heard them make and you get that a “puppy” is not something that exists. The thing that they pointed at existed, don’t get me wrong. It’s just that it was not a “puppy” is all. Now your thinking “well if it wasn’t a puppy, what was it?” The best that I can offer is that it was a life, the same as you. There is nothing to be afraid of about waking up. In fact, it’s the most freeing feeling in the world. It’s like all of the sudden you are seeing things and the words that you once associated with what you see, no longer have any power over you. You get that a “country” is something that you say, not something that you see or something that exists and that “countries” only exist is fairytales. You are no longer willing to be fooled by those in command of a global audience. If anything, you want them to shut up. Unless they are willing to tell everyone the truth. We are coming into the most exciting time in all of recorded history. Be excited. 🙂