AI robot barely passes gaokao mathematics tests
A home- made artificial intelligence ( AI) robot, without access to the Internet or any other resources, narrowly passed the math test of the national college entrance examinations or gaokao on Wednesday, the first day of gaokao.
The robot, AI- Maths, took the tests in Chengdu, Southwest China’s Sichuan Province.
Taking 22 minutes and 10 minutes for the two versions of the test, it respectively scored 105/ 150 and 100/ 150. The standard time for the test is two hours.
The robot is developed by Chengdu- based technology company Zhun Xing Yun Xue, which is under Bigdata Processing Center Suzhou Research Institute of Tsinghua University.
As part of a project launched by the Ministry of Science and Technol- ogy in 2014, the robot is designed to achieve breakthroughs in key AI technologies, including in- depth learning, concept understanding and question analysis, Wang Shijin, deputy dean of iFlytek Research, a research center that develops AI speech and language technology, told the Global Times.
IFlytek Research is also involved in the AI- Maths project.
After three years of research and development, the robot can not only solve problems it has never encountered but also demonstrate every step of the solving process in an understandable way to people.
“But as questions in the college entrance test change a lot every year, I think it is normal that the result varies between 100 and 120 points,” Wang said.
Although making an impressive performance on multiple choice questions, even obtaining full marks on such questions in the first test, the robot lost many points in fill- in- theblank and free- response questions.
Lin Hui, Zhun Xing Yun Xue CEO, showed his dissatisfaction with the results. “Given another hour, the result will improve by at least 10 points,” he said.
According to Lin, “although the robot can easily handle questions in mathematical language like ‘ 10+ 1=?,’ it is very difficult for it to understand questions in descriptive language like people’s movements and names.”
The ultimate goal of the robot is to get 120 to 130 points on the test, an expert involved in the project told the paper. cn.
In a competition between are AI robot and six top scorers in previous years’ college entrance tests in Beijing, the robot Aidam developed by Chinese education technology company xueba100. com scored 134 in the math test while the six top scorers reached an average score at 135.