【A Fair Haired Woman Who Spins And Pulls Out】

An AI machine that sat the math paper for China's college entrance exam has failed to prove it's better than its human competition.

AI-Maths,A Fair Haired Woman Who Spins And Pulls Out a machine made of 11 servers, three years in the making, joined almost 10 million high schoolers last week, in sitting for the country's national exam.

SEE ALSO: After destroying humans, Google's AlphaGo hangs up its Go gloves

AI-Maths scored 105 points out of the maximum score of 150 in the first version of the test, and 100 for the second version, not far above the passing grade of 90.

This was well below average of 135 that top scorers achieved in previous years for math.

At least the machine breezed through the test quickly. It took only 22 minutes for the first test, and 10 minutes for the second -- far ahead of the two-hour allotted time.

The exams are part of the Gaokao, or China's college entrance exams that are known to be infamously difficult.

Every year, millions of students take the Gaokao-- one of China's most gruelling and difficult exams Credit: Sipa Asia/REX/Shutterstock

Chinese users on Weibo, a social media platform, were pretty smug about the machine's loss.

Mashable Light Speed Want more out-of-this world tech, space and science stories? Sign up for Mashable's weekly Light Speed newsletter. By clicking Sign Me Up, you confirm you are 16+ and agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Thanks for signing up!

"Suddenly I feel like there's still hope for humans," said one internet user on Weibo.

"You won at Chess, you won at Go, finally we won this," another chipped in.

"My math score last year was higher than this," one proudly said.

Still some way to go

The AI-Maths, which was developed as part of a project by the Ministry of Science and Technology, has been trained to tackle more than 10,000 math questions.

Though the machine can speed through numbers, there's still a lot to be desired when it comes to understanding math problems.

For example, this classic Chinese math problem asks you to figure out how many chickens and rabbits there are in a cage, only giving you the total number of legs and heads as information. To process that, you need to know how many legs chickens and rabbits have.

The company that developed the robot, Chengdu Zhunxingyunxue Technology, added that the machine might have "had a problem in understanding natural language."

"I hope next year the machine can improve its performance on logical reasoning and computer algorithms and score over 130," Lin Hui, the company's CEO told state news outlet Xinhua.

The company hopes that by 2020, such AI machines will be smart enough to gain admission to top universities in China.

So it looks like AI machines can't win at everything -- yet.

---

Featured Video For You

---

Friendly robot educates kids with augmented reality

---

Topics Artificial Intelligence

• Digital Culture
• Games
• Science
• Tech
• Deals
• Shopping
• Life
• Social Good

• Why Trump Is an Effective Negotiator
• South Africa vs. Australia 2025 livestream: Watch ICC World Test Championship final for free
• Elon Musk reveals Robotaxi launch date, but he's not very certain about it
• Display Panel Technology: TN vs. VA vs. IPS
• After the Storm
• Why I think the Eufy E20 is the most underrated vacuum of 2025 so far
• Best headphones deal: Save $55 on SHOKZ OpenRun Pro
• 10 Big Misconceptions About Computer Hardware
• The Usual Suspects
• Today's Hurdle hints and answers for June 13, 2025

• Genesis Mint is the cutest electric concept car for city living
• Summer movie preview 2019: Dramas to watch out for
• Verizon increases fees in stores, reduces them online
• Instagram could start hiding like counts
• 'The Simpsons' includes an ironic nod to its Trump election prediction
• YouTube app will soon return to Amazon Fire TV devices
• Netflix's 'Something Great' is something just okay: Review
• Lyft's new TV ads take aim at Uber
• Summer movie preview 2019: Our top 6 picks
• Super calm man watching politicians fight has fascinated the internet

• <em>The Voice</em> and Its Village
• 10 Big Misconceptions About Computer Hardware
• Best headphones deal: Save $55 on SHOKZ OpenRun Pro
• 25 Great Games You Can Play on Laptops and Budget PCs
• Shrinking the President
• Google to force Pixel 6a update that will reduce battery capacity
• Is Google down? Users report issues with Google Meet, Nest, and more
• An absurd TikTok trend lets AI finish your photo
• Malign Intervention
• Explainer: What is Machine Learning?

• Hyperspeed of the Immediate
• 10 Big Misconceptions About Computer Hardware
• Walmart has the Switch 2 in stock for $749
• NYT Connections hints and answers for June 12: Tips to solve 'Connections' #732.
• Conspiracies, War, and Democrats
• Best Sonos deal: Save $45 on Sonos Roam 2
• Wordle today: The answer and hints for June 12, 2025
• Best Google Play deal: Spend $50 and get a $5 credit back at Amazon
• A Coalition Government of the Heart
• Best TV deal: Save $500 on Samsung Frame TV