January 16, 2021 Microsoft on Tuesday announced that its AI model has surpassed humans In Natural Language Understanding (NLU) With SuperGLUE benchmarks. According to Microsoft, Natural Language Understanding (NLU) is one of the longest-running goals in AI (artificial intelligence), and SuperGLUE is currently among the most challenging benchmarks for evaluating NLU models. The SuperGLUE benchmark consists of a wide range of NLU tasks, including question answering, natural language inference, co-reference resolution, word sense disambiguation, and others. The Redmond tech giant took the causal reasoning task as an example. Given the premise “the child became immune to the disease” and the question “what’s the cause for this?,” the model is asked to choose an answer from two plausible candidates: 1) “he avoided exposure to the disease” and 2) “he received the vaccine for the disease.”