Can computers work beyond calculating and analyzing data faster than humans?  Well, the latest research into artificial intelligence shows that machines may soon be able to analyze patterns of large data better than humans.

Behind this discovery is a team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), namely, computer science student Max Kanter and MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory scientist Kalyan Veeramachaneni.

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The two scientists created a super advanced tool called Data Science Machine that is able to determine complicated and hidden patterns as well as pick essential variables faster than humans.

As mentioned earlier, conventionally, machines are meant to analyze data. However, it is humans who choose which information is important. In a comparative competition experiment, the machine finished first beating 615 human teams out of the more than 900 groups who joined.

According to The Market Business, the instrument surprisingly made more precise forecasting in the first two contests with accuracy rates of 94 and 96 per cent, but dropped to 87 per cent on the last match. Unlike humans, who take months to work on their algorithms, the machine only took a matter of two hours to half a day, as emphasized by the MIT News.

In an interview, Kanter said that they "view the Data Science Machine as a natural complement to human intelligence... There's so much data out there to be analyzed. And right now it's just sitting there not doing anything. So maybe we can come up with a solution that will at least get us started on it, at least get us moving."

Meanwhile, a computer analyst from Harvard University Margo Seltzer has noted that the new device does not only fix problems but looks at things at different angles.

A research paper on the Data Science Machina will be exhibited this week in Paris at the IEEE Data Science and Advanced Analytics conference. In the mean time, the study is already available online.

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