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We’re still very far away from Data on “Star Trek,” an artificial intelligence creation with self-awareness and a human-like mind. But artificial intelligence designers are taking baby steps. More accurately, they’re taking 4-year-old steps.
A study by researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago took one of today’s top artificial intelligence systems, ConceptNet 4, and gave it an IQ test. Its average IQ worked out to be about that of a 4-year-old human, the researchers found.
ConceptNet 4 was developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The UIC team used the verbal parts of the Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence Test to put it through its paces.
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