Humans still have an edge against AI when it comes to certain skills, but it's getting close.

From American public media, this is Marketplace Tech. I'm Megan McCarty Carino. Just how capable is today's artificial intelligence at beating humans at their own games.

That's one of the metrics tracked by an annual report put together by Stanford's Institute for Human-centered

AI.

And its latest AI Index report finds the tech is quickly gaining on humans. Nesta Masley is a research manager at Stanford's Institute for Human Centered AI

and editor-in-chief of the Index Report.

He told us that AI now exceeds human capability, not only in areas like simple reading

comprehension and image classification, but also domains that start to approach human logic,

like natural language inference,

the ability to draw inferences from text,

or visual reasoning,

the ability to deduce physical relationships

between visual objects.

Still, there are areas where the bots haven't quite caught up.

There are still some task categories like visual common sense reasoning, which is the ability

to make kind of common sense deductions from visual inputs or competition level mathematics where AI trails behind humans, but even with those systems

it's kind of really worth noticing that the improvements in AI has been pretty remarkable in the last few years.

And I think for me it's really not a question of if they're going to kind of exceed the human

baseline, it's just more a question of when and to see how the progress

has become increasingly more advanced and increasingly more rapid is really

something that's been quite quite interesting to behold.

There has been some speculation among AI researchers about these systems potentially hitting a wall and plateauing in terms of capabilities.

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