Animal-AI Olympics Will Test AI on Intelligence Tasks Designed for Crows and Chimps

Are today's best artificial intelligence (AI) systems as smart as a mouse? A new contest aims to find out. The Animal-AI Olympics, which will begin this June, aims to "benchmark the current level of various AIs against different animal species using a range of established animal cognition tasks." At stake are bragging rights and $10,000 in prizes. The project, a partnership between the University of Cambridge's Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence and GoodAI, a research institution based in Prague, is a new way to evaluate the progress of AI systems toward what researchers call artificial general intelligence.