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The conversation about artificial intelligence is often met with scrutiny and confusion. This is largely because there is no concrete definition of AI.
Weak AI is both the most limited and the most common of the three types of AI. It’s also known as narrow AI or artificial narrow intelligence (ANI).
A common misconception about weak AI is that it’s barely intelligent at all — more like artificial stupidity than AI. But even the smartest seeming AI of today are only weak AI.
In reality, then, narrow or weak AI is more like an intelligent specialist. It’s highly intelligent at completing the specific tasks it’s programmed to do.
The next of the types of AI is strong AI, which is also known as general AI or artificial general intelligence (AGI). Strong AI refers to AI that exhibits human-level intelligence. So, it can understand, think, and act the same way a human might in any given situation.In theory, then, anything a human can do, a strong AI can do too.
Currently, AI is only capable of the few things we program into it, and it’s clear that strong AI is a long way off. It’s thought that to achieve true strong AI, we would need to make our machines conscious.