AI - Artificial Intelligence

I've never been a fan of calling AI - "Artificial Intelligence" but think of it more as Automated Intelligence, at least for now. I came across this article by Alexander S. Gillis, Technical Writer and Editor that provides a great breakdown of what AI and where it is going.

According to Gillis's, super intelligent AI could be humanity's last invention. Developing a type of AI that's so sophisticated, it can create AI entities with even greater intelligence could change human-made invention forever. Such entities would surpass human intelligence and reach superhuman achievements.

How close are we to creating AI that surpasses the human mind? The short answer is not very close, but the pace is quickening since the modern field of AI began in the 1950s.

"There are four main types of AI that are based on functionality. The first two types belong to a category known as narrow AI, or AI that's trained to perform a specific or limited range of tasks. The second two types have yet to be achieved and belong to a category sometimes called strong AI."

• Narrow AI or weak AI. This is the most common type of AI that exists today. It's called narrow AI because it's trained to perform a single or narrow task, often far faster and better than humans can. Weak refers to the fact that the AI doesn't possess human-level general intelligence. Examples of narrow AI include chatbots, autonomous vehicles, Siri and Alexa, as well as recommendation engines.
• Artificial general intelligence. Sometimes referred to as strong AI, AGI is a type of -- as yet unrealized -- multifaceted machine intelligence that can learn and understand as well as a human can. Ideally, this AI could perform tasks as efficiently as a human, and it would have the ability to learn, understand and function similarly to a human.
• Artificial superintelligence. This refers to AI that's self-aware, with cognitive abilities that surpass that of humans. Super intelligent AI would be able to think, reason, learn and make judgments. Artificial superintelligence would be better at everything humans do by a wide margin, as it would have access to a large amount of memory, data processing and analysis.

Learn more about the potential future of AI in the next five years, including the industries it will transform.