Alibaba and Microsoft’s AI programs beat humans for the first time on a Stanford University reading comprehension test

Alibaba and Microsoft’s AI programs beat humans for the first time on a Stanford University reading comprehension test

The robots are coming, and they can read.

Artificial intelligence programs built by Alibaba (BABA) and Microsoft (MSFT) have beaten humans on a Stanford University reading comprehension test.

“This is the first time that a machine has outperformed humans on such a test,” Alibaba said in a statement Monday.

The test was devised by artificial intelligence experts at Stanford to measure computers’ growing reading abilities. Alibaba’s software was the first to beat the human score…

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