{"id":72460,"date":"2017-09-11T00:22:26","date_gmt":"2017-09-11T07:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/a-robot-did-better-than-80-of-students-on-the-university-of-tokyo-entrance-exam"},"modified":"2017-09-14T17:01:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-15T00:01:00","slug":"a-robot-did-better-than-80-of-students-on-the-university-of-tokyo-entrance-exam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/a-robot-did-better-than-80-of-students-on-the-university-of-tokyo-entrance-exam","title":{"rendered":"A robot did better than 80% of students on the University of Tokyo entrance exam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-robot-did-better-than-80-of-students-on-the-university-of-tokyo-entrance-exam.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Artificial intelligence can\u2019t understand meaning or emotion just yet, but it can write a pretty good essay on 17th-century maritime trade.<\/p>\n<p>At the 2017 TED Conference this past April, AI expert Noriko Arai <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/zeynep_tufekci_machine_intelligence_makes_human_morals_more_important\"> gave a talk<\/a> presenting her Todai Robot, a machine that has been programmed to take the entrance exam to Japan\u2019s most prestigious university, Tokyo University.<\/p>\n<p>While Arai discovered Todai didn\u2019t pass muster to gain acceptance, the robot still beat 80% of the students taking the exam, which consisted of seven sections, including math, English, science, and a 600-word essay writing portion.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/robot-beat-most-students-on-university-tokyo-entrance-exam-2017-9?utm_content=buffer84f93&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer-science\">http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/robot-beat-most-students-on-u...er-science<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial intelligence can\u2019t understand meaning or emotion just yet, but it can write a pretty good essay on 17th-century maritime trade. At the 2017 TED Conference this past April, AI expert Noriko Arai gave a talk presenting her Todai Robot, a machine that has been programmed to take the entrance exam to Japan\u2019s most prestigious [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2229,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72460"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72603,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72460\/revisions\/72603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}