Alibaba's AI beats humans in reading test - Xinhua

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 16 (Xinhua) -- Artificial intelligence programs built by China's e-commerce titan Alibaba scored better than humans on a Stanford University reading and comprehension test. "This is the first time that a machine has outperformed humans on such a test," Alibaba said in a statement on Monday. The test was designed by artificial intelligence experts at Stanford to measure computers' growing reading abilities. Alibaba's software was the first to beat the human race. Luo Si, chief scientist for natural language processing at Alibaba's AI research arm, called the milestone "a great honor," but also acknowledged that it is likely to lead to a significant number of workers losing their jobs to machines.