Noriko Arai : Can a robot pass a university entrance exam?

                                  

TED 2017

Noriko Arai : Can a robot pass a university entrance exam? (transcript)

Summary

The speaker is a Japanese woman who is an AI expert. Now, Japanese robotic technology is superior. In the game fields like shogi and chess, robots win over their professor players.

Also the remote server that a robot has is developed to the level that the robot can pass more than 60 percent of the universities in Japan.

The robot is called Todai Robot. Todai Robot Project aims to pass the entrance examination of a top university. “To” of Todai means Tokyo, and “Dai” means the university that is Daigaku in Japanese.

Japanese top university is The University of Tokyoin which the world ranking is 34th.

Next, will AI pass the entrance examination of a top university by 2020?

Todai Robot is very good at searching and optimizing. Todai Robot doesn't read and doesn't understand questions, but is statistically correct in the examination. Todai Robot can write a better essay than most of the students and it's the top one the mathematics exam.    

Just, Todai Robot doesn't understand any meaning and it makes an error when the ability to be able to read well is required. However, the ability to able to read well is lacking in students too because they just pack the knowledge without understanding the meaning of knowledge, that is just memorizing.

The conclusion is that if The University of Tokyo don’t have this kind of exam, Todai Robot can pass the exam.

If the Universities have only the exam that needs the ability to be able to read well and students change the ways of studying like understanding what they are reading, only students can pass the exam.

Words in this story

singularity / the state, fact, quality, or condition of being singular.

coexist / exist at the same time or in the same place.