{"id":89180,"date":"2019-04-03T10:22:47","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T17:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/ais-new-challenge-to-be-as-smart-as-an-animal"},"modified":"2019-04-03T10:22:47","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T17:22:47","slug":"ais-new-challenge-to-be-as-smart-as-an-animal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/ais-new-challenge-to-be-as-smart-as-an-animal","title":{"rendered":"AI\u2019s New Challenge: To Be as Smart as an Animal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ok9opyg0Ofg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>While the goal may be the same, the various obstacles the AIs will need to overcome to achieve success will vary \u2014 they might need to move an object, for example, or demonstrate an understanding of object permanence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe expect this to be a hard challenge,\u201d Matthew Crosby, one of the researchers behind the Animal-AI Olympics, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2197791-ais-go-up-against-animals-in-an-epic-competition-to-test-intelligence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told <em>New Scientist<\/em><\/a>. \u201cA perfect score will require a breakthrough in AI, well beyond current capabilities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever,\u201d he continued, \u201ceven small successes will show that it is possible, not just to find useful patterns in data, but to extrapolate from these to an understanding of how the world works.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/animal-ai-olympics-intelligence\">https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/animal-ai-olympics-intelligence<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the goal may be the same, the various obstacles the AIs will need to overcome to achieve success will vary \u2014 they might need to move an object, for example, or demonstrate an understanding of object permanence. \u201cWe expect this to be a hard challenge,\u201d Matthew Crosby, one of the researchers behind the Animal-AI [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89180","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}