Alibaba's AI Bot Outshines Humans in Reading Comprehension Test Beebom

First, it was the AlphaGo AI from Google's DeepMind subsidiary which beat the world's best Go players at their own game to make a record. Then, an AI named Libratus, developed by the Carnegie Mellon University, outclassed Poker pros in a tournament to turn the world's attention towards the rapid pace at which AI is progressing. In the latest such example of an AI outsmarting human beings, a deep neural network model developed by Alibaba fared better than humans in a reading comprehension test. The AI model developed by Alibaba's Institute of Data Science and Technologies blazed past the SQuAD (Stanford Question Answering Dataset) test- one of the most reliable reading comprehension test for evaluating a machine's language skills- in a contest which pitted it against human rivals. Alibaba's AI scored a cumulative 82.44 Exact Match (EM) points, outscoring its human competitors who manged to put up 82.304 points on the scoreboard.