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Letter: A test for artificial intelligence, right here

Published 8 November 2017

From Martin H. van Raay

So AlphaGo Zero is the best Go-playing AI (21 October, p 9). But how good is AI at understanding the rest of reality? For that, I propose the Letters test: getting more letters in New Scientist than anyone else. So far, I humbly observe that I am doing better at that than all the AIs put together.

Issue no. 3151 published 11 November 2017

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