AI robot fails to get into University of Tokyo

A team of researchers has failed to develop a robot smart enough to get into Japan's top university. The team, with members from the National Institute of Informatics, said Monday it was abandoning the effort began in 2011 to make a robot able to score well enough on entrance exams to achieve admission into the University of Tokyo, or Todai as it is commonly known. The researchers had hoped to create by March 2022 an artificial intelligence program capable of making the grade. The AI program dubbed Todai Robot had steadily improved its academic performance, but the team found a limit in its ability to understand various exam questions. "AI is not good at answering a type of question that requires the ability to grasp meaning in a broad spectrum," said Noriko Arai, a professor at the National Institute of Informatics.