Artificial intelligence programs built by China's e-commerce titan Alibaba scored better than humans on a Stanford University reading and comprehension test.

 

中国电商巨头阿里巴巴开发的人工智能项目在斯坦福大学的阅读理解测试中得分超过了人类。

 

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

 

The test was designed by artificial intelligence experts at Stanford to measure computers' growing reading abilities. Alibaba's software was the first to beat the human race.

 

Luo Si, chief scientist for natural language processing at Alibaba's AI research arm, called the milestone¹ "a great honor," but also acknowledged that it is likely to lead to a significant number of workers losing their jobs to machines.

 

The technology "can be gradually applied² to numerous applications such as customer service, museum tutorials and online responses to medical inquiries³ from patients, decreasing the need for human input⁴ in an unprecedented⁵ way," Si said in a statement.

 

Alibaba has already employed the underlying⁶ technology in its November 11 shopping festival over the years, using computers to answer a large number of customer service questions, the company said.

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