Japanese robot fails university entrance exam for 4 consecutive years due to poor English skills.

Artificial intelligence is probably a long way from catching up with human capabilities, having failed four times in its attempt to earn a college degree.

Torobo, developed by the National Institute of Automation in Japan since 2011, aimed to create a University of Tokyo entrance exam for artificial intelligence by 2022. However, earlier this week, the research team abandoned its original goal. Torobo, which contains artificial intelligence (AI), failed the University of Tokyo entrance exam for four consecutive years.

In its most recent attempt, Torobo took an exam designed by the educational advertising company Benesse Corp. This exam consisted of 8 mini-tests across 5 different subjects. The robot scored 525 out of 950 points, 14 points higher than last year.

Torobo's average score was 57.1%, far below the 80% required to gain admission to the University of Tokyo. Photo: Dailymail.

"This robot still scored almost the same as last year. Therefore, we were able to measure the capabilities and limitations of an artificial intelligence software," said Noriko Arai, a professor of information and social studies at the National Institute of Automation in Tokyo. Furthermore, she also led the team that programmed and installed Torobo from the beginning.

Between 2013 and 2015, Torobo achieved scores of 45.1, 47.3, and 57.8%, respectively. His 2016 score was considered low because the average score of all other students who took the university entrance exam was significantly higher.

Specifically, Torobo scored higher in Physics than last year, jumping from 46.5 to 59 points thanks to the robot's developers upgrading the software that assesses the difficulty of the questions.

With that score, Torobo can still apply to 1,373 departments at 535 other universities in Japan. This includes 23 highly-ranked domestic universities and research institutes. Photo: Dailymail.

Regarding his History score of 66.3, he achieved it because he put in a lot of effort to "learn" all the knowledge in the textbook as well as from other information websites. It's unclear whether the computer memory of an artificial intelligence could have been of much help in these lessons.

For Torobo, the most difficult subject was English. Like in previous years, Torobo always struggled to provide the most logical answers. With a listening score of 36.2 and a writing score of 50.5, poor English was the reason Torobo failed to get into university for four consecutive years.

Despite its failure, with its ability to extract accurate knowledge from a massive amount of stored information, this robot could be improved, programmed, and applied to the electronics industry in the future by the research team. Torobo's immediate "job" could be a manual labor position.

According to Zing