Artificial intelligence (AI): When hearing the word Artificial intelligence people often think about platforms that respond to your questions for instance Open-AI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini and many more but AI is more than that, more than responding to your questions. So today we will be seeing some of the features of this field.
- Firstly what is AI itself?
Artificial intelligence(AI): is a broad field of computer science concerned with designing and running intelligent computer systems. When we say intelligence there are two main types of intelligence but wait they are not two, but for now, we will only be seeing two of them. Natural intelligence(NI) is the ability to think, observe, understand, categorise, manipulate and make decisions. This type of intelligence is only for humans. To sum up, the main purpose of AI is to give computers and machines the ability to think, observe, understand, categorise, manipulate and make decisions on their behalf.
- What are the types of AI?
Artificial intelligence(AI) can be categorised depending on its capabilities and functionalities. What are the types of AI based on its capabilities.
- Narrow (Weak) AI: this is the type of AI we mentioned earlier these AI systems are designed to perform specific and simple sets of tasks. Virtual assistants like Siri, Gemini and Alexa are the best examples of Narrow or Weak AI. Even if they don’t perform tasks out of a specific domain they are brilliant systems.
- General (Strong) AI: As we predict from the name these types of systems have the ability to learn, understand and apply intelligence across a wide range of areas, much like humans. General (Strong) AI can perform any task that humans can do. In today’s world, these types of AI systems don’t exist.
- Super AI: An advanced form of AI that can surpass human intelligence in creativity, decision making and different abilities. Super AI is in a stage of fictional theory let alone becoming a reality.