Human brains still take in new information better than AI robots.
Human brains are still better than robots
Tech bosses have promised a future of self-driving cars and instant medical checks but scientists insist that human beings still maintain an advantage when it comes to learning for the time being.
Experts at Oxford University compared the human learning process to that of AI and found that people consolidate knowledge, skills and memories to reduce recall errors.
Meanwhile, machines learn by a process of elimination and block out mistakes until it has the answer - a process known as 'backpropagation' meaning that AI needs hundreds or thousands of attempts to take information in.
The study's author Dr. Yuhang Song said: "Learning in the brain is superior in many critical aspects. For example, compared to the brain, backpropagation requires more exposures to learn and suffers from catastrophic interference of new and old information.
"When trained on new tasks, performance on previous tasks is largely destroyed.
"Our biological systems often need to rapidly adapt to changing environments and have an advantage in this respect."