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From the Editor: One of the Most Important AI Papers of 2019

Francois Collet is a well-known name in the artificial intelligence(AI) community. A scientist in Google’s AI unit, Mr. Collet rose to prominence with the creation of Keras, one of the most popular deep learning frameworks in the market. A few weeks ago, Mr. Collet published a very comprehensive paper titled On the Measure of Intelligence, that proposes a new methodology for evaluating the intelligent capacity of AI systems. By going back to the roots of intelligence, Mr. Collect shades some light in some of the fundamental challenges of AI systems.

The premise of Mr. Collect paper is so simple that might appear shocking: we need to be able to define and evaluate intelligence in a way that enables comparisons between two systems, as well as comparisons with humans. Most AI systems today focus on measuring effectiveness on executing a specific task which is no real measure of intelligence by human standards. The paper is simply fascinating and, in our opinion, one of the most influential research publications of this…