The rapid advances in information processing technology in recent years have created computing devices with formidable powers. These machines have long been better than humans at arithmetic, certain games such as chess, and more recently at advanced pattern recognitions tasks such as face recognition.
But an outstanding questions is: to what extent do these capabilities add up to the equivalent of human intelligence? Today, we get answer of sorts thanks to the work of Stellan Ohlsson at the University of Illinois and a few pals who have put one of the world’s most powerful artificial intelligence machines through its paces using a standard IQ test given to humans.
The results show that even though computers have become far more powerful in recent years, they have some catching up to do to match human performance levels.
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