AI Terminology
Understanding the vocabulary of artificial intelligence helps us engage more meaningfully with its implications for our collective future.
AI, Narrow AI
Artificial Intelligence that can only perform specific tasks and lacks the ability to adapt or learn new tasks beyond its programming. Examples include voice assistants, recommendation systems, and image recognition algorithms.
AGI, Artificial General Intelligence
A type of AI that performs a wide range of tasks and abilities, much like a human. AGI would be able to understand, learn, and apply knowledge across different domains, exhibiting common sense reasoning and adaptive problem-solving skills.
ASI, Artificial Superintelligence
Refers to an AGI that surpasses human intelligence, becomes autonomous, and can improve its own code and objectives. An ASI would theoretically be capable of cognitive feats impossible for humans, potentially recursively improving itself at an accelerating rate.