This AI can pass an 8th grade science exam — but is it really ‘learning’ science?

guest · Sep 24, 2019

This AI can pass an 8th grade science exam — but is it really ‘learning’ science?
September 24, 2019
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Last week, the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) introduced Aristo, an artificial intelligence model that scored above 90 percent on an 8th grade science test and 80 percent on a 12th-grade exam.

Finding the subtle and implicit meanings of written and spoken language is especially difficult for contemporary AI algorithms, which are more tuned to searching and finding patterns in data.
In this regard, Aristo’s achievements marks a considerable improvement over previous AI models, which scored no more than 60 percent on the same science test.

As with every advance in AI, Aristo’s achievement was met with much hype and sensation. The headline of Fast Company’s coverage of Aristo reads, “This AI just passed a science test and may be smarter than an eighth grader.”
Interestingly, the creators of Aristo don’t make such claims.
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Contrary to the hype that tech news outlets have created around Aristo, its creators don’t have any illusions that their AI model rivals the intelligence of human beings. They make it clear at the beginning of the paper that Aristo is “not a full solution to general question-answering.”

Aristo is neither smarter nor as smart as an 8th grader. Neither is it a breakthrough technology; it’s more of an incremental improvement over previous work, albeit a remarkable one. The authors describe Aristo as “only a step on the long road toward a machine that has a deep understanding of science.”
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