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Google's AI Built an AI that Outperforms Any Made By Humans (sciencealert.com)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the rise-of-the-machine-learning dept.

schwit1 quotes ScienceAlert: In May 2017, researchers at Google Brain announced the creation of AutoML, an artificial intelligence (AI) that's capable of generating its own AIs. More recently, they decided to present AutoML with its biggest challenge to date, and the AI that can build AI created a 'child' that outperformed all of its human-made counterparts... For this particular child AI, which the researchers called NASNet, the task was recognising objects -- people, cars, traffic lights, handbags, backpacks, etc. -- in a video in real-time. AutoML would evaluate NASNet's performance and use that information to improve its child AI, repeating the process thousands of times.

When tested on the ImageNet image classification and COCO object detection data sets NASNet was 82.7 percent accurate at predicting images on ImageNet's validation set. This is 1.2 percent better than any previously published results, and the system is also 4 percent more efficient, with a 43.1 percent mean Average Precision (mAP).

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  1. This all sounds impressive... by MikeDataLink · · Score: 3, Insightful

    but every time I research the raw data it becomes very clear these aren't all that smart of AIs. In fact, the term AI is very misleading. They're more like smart scripts. ;-)

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    1. Re:This all sounds impressive... by Dutch+Gun · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I think the term "deep learning" seems a bit better than "AI" for these sorts of very narrowly-defined tasks.

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    2. Re: This all sounds impressive... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      I truly don't give a shit what you think or have to say. Neither does anyone.

      And yet OP is rated +5 insightful, and you're rated -1 troll. So yeah. There's that.

    3. Re:This all sounds impressive... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      It can identify if something is a kitten or not with 83.4% accuracy. Sounds impressive until you realize a 3 year old can do this with 99.9% accuracy.

      Sounds insightful, until you realize the entire purpose of AI research is to create software artificially to reproduce feats of human intelligence.

      That fact sorta disqualifies the 3 year old :P

      Also your comment is pretty close to implying that since our first attempts at making AI haven't had a 99.9% success rate right off the bat, that they are not impressive enough to bother improving.
      Giving up has a 100% success rate of never making anything better, which is also against the purpose of trying to improve something.

    4. Re:This all sounds impressive... by serviscope_minor · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Indeed they are not. This is Weak AI. They are programmed/trained for a specific task, and outside that area of expertise, they generally have no ability at all.

      Yep

      In fact, the term AI is very misleading.

      I disagree.

      No one[*] is vlaiming these techniques ar intelligent. However what they are doing is solving a task which previously required human intelligence to solve, hence the name "artificial intelligence".

      Compare to a lot of computation, where the steps are simple, and it's been widely known for a while that simple sheer quantity of them rather than intelligence is needed.

      It's a pretty arbitrary name, but it's not actually unreasonable.

      [*]There's always one idiot. Let's ignore him.

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