DeepMind has surpassed the human head on the Go board. Watson has crushed America’s trivia gods on Jeopardy. But ask DeepMind to participate in Monopoly or Watson to participate in Spouse and children Feud, and they will not even know wherever to start. Because these artificial intelligence engines weren’t exclusively designed to participate in these games and aren’t smart plenty of to figure them out by by themselves, they’ll give nonsensical responses. They’ll struggle considerably, and people will outperform them—by a large amount.
DeepMind has surpassed the human head on the Go board. Watson has crushed America’s trivia gods on Jeopardy. But ask DeepMind to participate in Monopoly or Watson to participate in Spouse and children Feud, and they will not even know wherever to start. Because these artificial intelligence engines weren’t exclusively designed to participate in these games and aren’t smart plenty of to figure them out by by themselves, they’ll give nonsensical responses. They’ll struggle considerably, and people will outperform them—by a large amount.
Assaf Baciu is co-founder and senior vice president of Persado, a cognitive material-technology organization in New York.