When I first got involved with Artificial Intelligence I was a young and somewhat naive Machine Translation researcher in the early 1980’s. At that time, AI was already going through its second round of big expectations.
In January, Microsoft and Alibaba issued press releases that were echoed by the press exclaiming AI beats humans in Stanford reading comprehension test The writers and editors at Wired were more naturally curious than those at a number of other publications. They dug into the details. They wrote: The benchmark is biased in favor…
Recently, some AI algorithms have been discovered to be “unpredictable” or “wild” and we are beginning to see that AI developers do not have as good a grasp on the situation as they thought they did.
