Inside DeepMind’s IQ Test for Neural Networks

A recent paper tries to quantify the ability of neural networks to generalized abstract concepts.

Source: https://spectrum.ieee.org/how-do-you-test-the-iq-of-ai

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The ability to create abstractions from knowledge representations is one of the hallmarks of human intelligence. Arguably, the two most famous theories about the dynamics of the universe were derived as results of abstractions. Legend has it that a young Isaac Newton was sitting under an apple tree when he was bonked on the head by a falling piece of fruit, a 17th-century “aha moment” that prompted him to suddenly come up with his law of gravity. In reality, things didn’t happen quite like that but I will take the folklore version for the purposes of this article. The ability to…