Next-Generation A.I. Could Develop Its Own 'Human Intuition'

Artificial intelligence is pretty good at performing tasks like driving cars, translating languages, and identifying faces. The next step is getting A.I. to react to the world with intuitive knowledge. A new article published in A.I. trade publication Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery finds that instead of slogging through data sets carefully labeled to teach A.I. about the world, A.I. is starting to understand the world like people do. Research at Facebook and elsewhere opens the door for A.I. that is more intuitive, which Yann LeCun, director of A.I. research at Facebook, says is the key to improving artificial intelligence. The next level of A.I. will learn by observing, similar to how an infant learns.