Thursday, August 11

Measuring the IQ of AI

"New Scientist reports that a pair of scientists have devised a universal IQ test for artificial intelligences:

'Traditional measures of human intelligence often won't be appropriate for systems that have senses, environments and cognitive capacities very different from our own. So Shane Legg and Marcus Hutter at the Swiss Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Manno-Lugano have drafted an alternative test that will allow the intelligence of vision systems, robots, natural language processing programs or trading agents to be compared and contrasted despite their broad and disparate functions.'"

Read more in this seattlepi.com post.