Humans still rule AI machines when it comes to understanding comic books

The list of activities in which artificial intelligence machines have bested humans is increasing at an alarming rate. Face recognition, object recognition, chess, Go, various video games, and numerous other tasks have all fallen in this battle. So it's natural to ask about the types of tasks that machines still have difficulty with. Where do humans still rule the roost? Today, we get an answer of sorts thanks to the work of Mohit Iyyer at the University of Maryland in College Park and a few pals.