AI Machine Has Same IQ As Four-Year-Old Child

Artificial Intelligence is both an amazing and scary emerging technology. On the one hand it is an amazing feat to create something that mimics our own minds so closely. However if at one point this technology reaches our own level of intelligence, then we should be worried about it being implemented in dangerous ways. Putting this type of intelligence into androids for example could lead to an ethical dilemma as depicted in the movie Ex Machina.

EX MACHINA - 2015 FILM STILL - Alicia Vikander as Ava

EX MACHINA – 2015 FILM STILL – Alicia Vikander as Ava

Sadly Artificial Intelligence today is not nearly as advanced as depicted in science fiction. An AI machine developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was recently given an IQ test to see how it can handle simple questions. This IQ test was originally designed for four year olds, and includes a series of simple questions.

The biggest problem the AI encounters are questions with inherent meaning or intent. For example, when asked “why do people shake hands?” it interpreted the question as asking “what is the reason people’s hands shake?”. As a result, it decided that people shake hands because they are having an epileptic fit. As you can imagine, the AI scored poorly on the comprehension questions.

Another category it did poor in is the word reasoning section. When given the clues “This animal has a mane if it is male, it lives in Africa, and it is a yellowish-brown cat,” its five most common answers were “dog,” “cat,” “home,” “creature,” and “farm.” Clearly the AI had problems simply interpreting the answers it should give because many of the answers are nonsensical.

Clearly the AI needs improvements in interpreting language, but showing that it can compete with any level of human intelligence is fascinating to me. Overall it was concluded that the AI was as equally intelligent as a four year old. It is predicted that AI will begin to improve rapidly in the next 5 years.

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5 thoughts on “AI Machine Has Same IQ As Four-Year-Old Child

  1. I agree with its first sentence that Artificial Intelligence, also AI, is both an amazing and scary technology. There are pros and cons of this technology. There are some advantages such as no risk of harm, acts as aid, limitless of function, etc. However, as a human being, I do not think there will be a great future with this intelligence technology, which will bring negative ways. Even though AI does not work as robot in science fiction, MIT recently has record of IQ test, which was designed for four year old. This means that this invention can answer simple question as four-year-old do. It sounds scary for me. As we learn in class, comparing between machine and human, machine do not have emotion and creativity what people have it infinitely. As they are machine, they cannot provide us with the feeling of a togetherness and emotional understanding. Machines will lack the ability to sympathies and empathies with our situation, which may act irrationally as consequences. Furthermore, if machines will perform most of our tasks, there will be a result with people who are jobless. Unemployment is still a big issue, which should be solved quickly.

  2. I think that Artificial Intelligence is very interesting, yet very scary. Even though it has the IQ of a four year old, the AI machine built by MIT has the possibility of improving. The example that you wrote about is only one of the many AI machines out there. One of the more impressive advances in AI was the creation of Watson.

    Watson is na artificially intelligent computer system that was developed by IBM. Watson is most known for its appearance on Jeopardy. Even though its ability to answer questions on Jeopardy was impressive, its terrifying to think that a machine could be so smart. As stated on the IBM website, Watson was built to mirror the same learning process that humans use- through the power of cognition.

    Watson, along with other AI machines, may seem impressive to most, but to me its a scary reminder of where the future is heading. We live in an age of smart machines, and they only have the ability to get smarter. It will be interesting to see what sort of AI machine will be developed next.

    Here is some more information about IMB’s Watson:
    http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/ibmwatson/watson-today.html

  3. I also think that artificial intelligence is a really fascinating topic. Because humans are always curious about why could we think? why our brain function this way? What is out thinking process? Why we reason this way? If we can create a machine that can think like us and reason like us, it would be really fascinating and also make us understand ourself better. However, it is also scary because our current moral system don’t know how to handle intelligence create that made by iron, steels and basically may have eternal life.
    It is fascinating in a way that AI not only can help us understand ourself and also can help us in our life. However, in reality, we are not ready to handle and AI that can seriously think like an adult.

  4. I also think that artificial intelligence is a really fascinating topic. Because humans are always curious about why could we think? why our brain function this way? What is out thinking process? Why we reason this way? If we can create a machine that can think like us and reason like us, it would be really fascinating and also make us understand ourself better. However, it is also scary because our current moral system don’t know how to handle intelligence create that made by iron, steels and basically may have eternal life.
    It is fascinating in a way that AI not only can help us understand ourself and also cacn help us in our life. However, in reality, we are not ready to handle and AI that can seriously think like an adult.

  5. While I think that the concept of Artificial Intelligence is really fascinating in theory, I think that in reality it is one way that technology is going too far. What is concerning is your point that the intelligence of AL is expected to “improve rapidly” over just the next few years. Computers are safer when they are used instead as a tool, with humans that are using them responsible for doing critical thinking.

    Everything these days is moving in the direction of being wired together on a network of computers. Everything from refrigerators to nuclear bombs are being wired to the internet. Very reminiscent of the Internet of Things IoT, everything has technology. Giving every day objects the intelligence of a fully functioning human one day could be very dangerous considering how much responsibility we put at the will of technology sometimes.

    With the possibility of advanced systems in the world being one day as smart as humans, the possibility for growth is limitless.

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