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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 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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