Artificial Intelligence | What is Artificial Intelligence | Types of Artificial Intelligence.

This blog sums up the perception of artificial intelligence for most of us but at present, we're at no risk of being destroyed by machines, however, the tech tycoon Elon Musk begs to differ. He quotes that “AI is a fundamental risk to the existence of human civilization”

Now whether artificial intelligence is a threat or not is debatable let me know your thoughts in the comment section for now let me introduce you to artificial intelligence the term artificial intelligence was first coined decades ago in the year 1956 by John McCarty at the Dartmouth conference. He defined “Artificial intelligence as the science and engineering of making intelligent machines” in a sense AI is a technique of getting machines to work and behave like humans in the recent past. AI has been able to accomplish this by creating machines and robots that are being used in a wide range of fields including healthcare robotics marketing business analytics and many more. However many AI applications are not perceived as AI because we often tend to think of artificial intelligence as robots doing our daily course but the truth is artificial intelligence has found its way into our daily lives. It has become so general that we don't realize we use it all the time for instance have you ever wondered. How Google is able to give you such accurate search results or how your Facebook feed always gives you content based on your interest the answer to these questions is artificial intelligence. Now before I go any further let me clear a very common misconception people often tend to think that artificial intelligence machine learning and deep learning are the same since they have common applications. For example, Siri is an application of AI machine learning and so how are these technologies deleted artificial intelligence is the science of getting machines to mimic the behavior of humans machines. Learning is a subset of AI that focuses on getting machines to make decisions by feeding those data. On the other hand, deep learning is a subset of machine learning that uses the concept of neural networks to solve complex problems so, to sum up, artificial intelligence machine learning and deep learning are interconnected fields machine learning and deep learning needs artificial intelligence by providing a set of algorithms and neural networks to solve data-driven problems, however, AI is not restricted to only machine learning and deep learning covers a vast domain of fields including natural language processing object detection computer vision robotics expert systems and so on. Now artificial intelligence can be structured along three evolutionary stages or you can say that. There are three different types of artificial intelligence.

1. Artificial Narrow Intelligence

2. Artificial General Intelligence

3. Artificial Super Intelligence

First, we have the artificial narrow intelligence which is also known as weak AI involves applying artificial intelligence only to specific tasks now many currently existing systems that claim to use artificial intelligence are operating as weak AI focused on a narrowly defined specific problem. Now Alexa is a very good example of narrow intelligence it operates within a limited predefined range of functions. There is no genuine intelligence or no self-awareness despite being a sophisticated example of weak AI. Other examples of weak AI include the face verification that you see in your iPhone the autopilot feature at Tesla the social humanoid Sophia is built at Hanson robotics and finally, we have Google Maps all of these applications are based on weak AI or artificial narrow intelligence.

Now let's take a look at the next one the artificial general intelligence is also known as strong AI it involves machines that possesses. The ability to perform any intellectual task that a human being can you see machines don't possess human-like abilities we have a strong processing unit that can perform high-level computations but they are not yet capable of thinking and reasoning like a human there are many experts. Who doubts that artificial general intelligence will ever be possible and there are also, many who question whether it should be desirable, I am sure all of you have heard of Stephen Hawking's now warned us that strong AI would take off on its own and redesign itself at an ever-increasing rate human, who are limited by slow biological evolution couldn't compete and would be superseded.

Coming to the last type artificial superintelligence is a term that refers to the time when the capabilities of computers will surpass human beings. Artificial superintelligence is presently seen as a hypothetical situation as depicted in movies and science-fiction books where machines will take over the world however, tech masterminds like Elon Musk believe that artificial superintelligence will take over the world by the year 2040 now that you know the different types of artificial intelligence. If you want to know how Artificial Intelligence works, then you wait for our next blog.