Artificial intelligence system has the IQ of a four year-old
A team at the University of Illinois, Chicago, gave one of the world's most advanced AI systems an IQ test.* They reported its IQ as the level of an average four year-old. This research has to be taken with a pinch of salt. For a start, many psychologists are sceptical of the value of IQ tests. The fact that you can improve your test results with practice suggests that they don't test anything more inherent than the ability to pass IQ tests. Also, the system scored very differently on different parts of the test, to the extent that a child...