Study Ranks Google as Most Intelligent AI

Chinese researchers have developed a method to measure the intelligence quotient (IQ) of AI applications and found that Google's technology scored nearly as well as a human six-year old. The researchers also measured applications developed by Baidu, Microsoft and Apple, all of which fared less well. The study was written up by Liu Feng of Beijing Jiaotong University; Yong Shi, the Director of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Research Center on Fictitious Economy and Data Science; and Ying Liu of the School of Economic Management, UCAS. In the study, they attempt to quantify the capabilities of a number of well-known AI technologies. They present the problem thusly: "Quantitative evaluation of artificial intelligence currently in fact faces two important challenges: there is no unified model of an artificially intelligent system, and there is no unified model for comparing artificially intelligent systems with human beings." In the paper they published, the authors propose to solve that by developing a "standard intelligence model" that attempts to encompass AI systems and humans, and which categories them across a seven-level taxonomy of knowledge capability.