(I thought
it best to agree on a common vocabulary before trying to tackle this question…Rafael)
From: http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revolution-1.html?utm_source=List&utm_campaign=867044c6bb-WBW+%28MailChimp%29&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5b568bad0b-867044c6bb-50855317
There are many different types or forms of AI since AI
is a broad concept, the critical categories we need to think about are based on
an AI’s caliber. There are three major
AI caliber categories:
· AI Caliber 1) Artificial Narrow
Intelligence (ANI): Sometimes referred to as Weak AI,
Artificial Narrow Intelligence is AI that specializes in one area. There’s AI
that can beat the world chess champion in chess, but that’s the only thing it
does. Ask it to figure out a better way to store data on a hard drive, and it’ll
look at you blankly.
· AI Caliber 2) Artificial General
Intelligence (AGI): Sometimes referred to as Strong AI, or
Human-Level AI, Artificial General Intelligence refers to a computer that is as
smart as a human across the board—a machine that can perform any intellectual
task that a human being can. Creating an AGI is a much harder task than
creating an ANI, and we’re yet to do it. Professor Linda Gottfredson describes
intelligence as “a very general mental capability that, among other things,
involves the ability to reason, plan, solve problems, think abstractly,
comprehend complex ideas, learn quickly, and learn from experience.” An AGI
would be able to do all of those things as easily as you can.
· AI Caliber 3) Artificial
Superintelligence (ASI): Oxford philosopher and leading AI
thinker Nick Bostrom defines superintelligence as “an intellect that is much
smarter than the best human brains in practically every field, including
scientific creativity, general wisdom and social skills.” Artificial Superintelligence
ranges from a computer that’s just a little smarter than a human to one that’s
trillions of times smarter—across the board. ASI is the reason the topic of AI
is such a spicy meatball and why the words immortality and extinction will both
appear in these posts multiple times.
As of now, humans have conquered the lowest caliber of
AI—ANI—in many ways, and it’s everywhere.
The
AI Revolution is the road from ANI, through AGI, to ASI—a road we may or may
not survive but that, either way, will change everything.
1 comment:
The jump from AGI to ASI may be much easier than the jump from ANI to AGI. It seems to me that once human intelligence is automated it is just a mater of speed and capacity to make that human intelligence into a 'super human' intelligence.
For example, if you met someone who could tell you what Winston Churchill said or wrote on US politics, and could beat you in chess, you would consider him to be very intelligent, especially if he could drive a car. But if he could also tell you what anyone in the world wrote about any topic at all and could beat everyone at chess (playing simultaneously) then you would consider him to be super intelligent.
Yet the difference between the two individuals is only quantitative. And it is achievable by an extrapolation of the present expansion of computing power, ala Moore's Law.
The jump from ANI to AGI, on the other hand, involves definition of human intelligence, and the creation of circuits that can do mimmick it. Not easy at all. We are not not yet able to define human intelligence, much less reproduce it in solid state.
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