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Today you learn about how scientists came up with a thousand questions that stump computers,

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Scientists came up with a thousand questions that stump computers and they did it to help

researchers improve machine learning in the future. You know when you ask a question to

your smart speaker or Siri and it gives you an answer that's pretty much completely useless.

Well, that's the kind of thing scientists would like to work on.

But in order to help computers think better,

first we need to learn more about how they think in the first place.

So a team of researchers from the University of Maryland set out to do just that

by coming up with a list of questions the computers could not solve.

It all comes down to the fact that language can be tricky. questions the computers could not solve.

It all comes down to the fact that language can be tricky for machines.

If you tweet that something was totally sick,

you might mean that it was cool,

even though the dictionary might suggest you're saying something has a disease.

We humans are pretty good at picking up patterns like this when we see certain language used

the same way multiple times and it turns out that AI systems are pretty good at

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