Can AI and People Play Nice?

Artificial intelligence has rapidly transformed from a novelty into a powerful tool capable of outperforming even expert humans in some knowledge-based tasks. In “Can AI and People Play Nice?,” Terp explores how University of Maryland computer science professor Jordan Boyd-Graber is using the fast-paced trivia game quizbowl to better understand the evolving relationship between people and AI. Boyd-Graber, who has an appointment in the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS) , has spent more than a decade developing QANTA, an AI system designed to...