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AI Beat Humans at Reading! Maybe Not

AI Beat Humans at Reading! Maybe Not

AI Beat Humans at Reading! Maybe Not

Business, Spoken · SpokenLayer

January 19, 20189m 18s

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Show Notes

News spread Monday of a remarkable breakthrough in artificial intelligence. Microsoft and Chinese retailer Alibaba independently announced that they had made software that matched or outperformed humans on a reading-comprehension test devised at Stanford. Microsoft called it a “major milestone.” Media coverage amplified the claims, with Newsweek estimating “millions of jobs at risk.” Those jobs seem safe for a while.

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