On Monday, September 9, 2019 at 4:06:33 AM UTC-6, John Clark wrote:
>
> Just 4 years ago 700 AI programs competed against each other and tried to 
> pass a 8th-Grade multiple choice Science Test and win a $80,000 prize, but 
> they all flunked, the best one only got 59.3% of the questions correct. But 
> last Wednesday the Allen Institute unveiled a AI called  "Aristo" that got 
> 90.7% correct and then answered 83% of the 12th grade science test 
> questions correctly.
>
> It seems to me that for a long time AI improvement was just creeping along 
> but in the last few years things started to pick up speed.
>
> AI goes from F to A on the N.Y. Regents Science Exam 
> <https://arxiv.org/pdf/1909.01958.pdf>
>
> John K Clark
>

If it knows which questions it got wrong, and the correct reply, it could 
easily be programmed to improve over time without ascribing "intelligence" 
or "consciousness" to it.  Can't you admit that? AG

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