Artificial intelligence is advancing by leaps and bounds in the market. There are more and more improvements and developments that contribute to this advance. Now, Alibaba announces something of great importance. The company claims to have achieved develop artificial intelligence that has better reading comprehension than humans. It appears to have scored higher on the Stanford Question Answering Dataset tool.
It is a large-scale test in which 100.000 questions are asked of readers. Many companies in the sector such as Google or Microsoft make use of this tool. Now, Alibaba has also used it in its latest tests.
In the same, the company's machine learning model has obtained a score of 82,44 points in the test. The average for humans is usually about 82,304 points. So even though the difference is minimal, it has managed to overcome that barrier. In this way, artificial intelligence shows progress.
Therefore, this system allows artificial intelligences to learn by themselves to understand the way humans speak. In addition to being able to understand what they mean when they ask certain questions. So it seems that this Alibaba machine could understand what it reads better than humans. Although, it is a first test.
Although we are seeing how there are more and more systems that can learn better than humans. A good example of this is AlphaGo. So this advance from Alibaba is heading in this direction. One more example of the progress that is taking place in artificial intelligence.
What is most striking is that this advance has been achieved by a company like Alibaba that is dedicated to online commerce. So the development of this artificial intelligence that understands user questions can be a historic moment in customer service. So we will have to be attentive to how it evolves. Since it could mean a revolution in the market.