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Briefing
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- Machines Beat Humans – Alibaba and Microsoft’s artificial intelligence (AI) programs scored higher than humans in Stanford University’s reading comprehension test, scoring 82.44 and 82.65 respectively, versus humans’ record of 82.304
- Stanford Test Dataset – Large-scale reading comprehension test with more than 100,000 questions pertaining to some 500 Wikipedia articles
- Early Testers – International universities and global technology firms, such as Google, Facebook, and IBM also used Stanford test to determine machine learning models’ reading comprehension capabilities
- Strengths and Weaknesses – Alibaba’s model strong on questions with defined answers, but weak on questions with too vague or ungrammatical language or expressions
- Potential Applications – Include customer service, museum tutorials, medical chatbots, targeted advertising, and social media
- Alibaba’s AI Plans – Announced $15 billion investment in emerging technologies, including AI, in October 2017
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Accelerator
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Sector
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Information Technology
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Organization
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Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., Facebook Inc., International Business Machines Corp., Microsoft Corp., Stanford University
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Source
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Original Publication Date
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January 15, 2018
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