Artificial intelligence (AI) has been broken into several stages of development, and there are various interpretations of the levels, as follows. See
AI and
AI in a nutshell.
1 - RULE BASED AI: tasks have clearcut rules. Expert systems were the first AI. See
expert system.
2 - CONTEXT AWARENESS: system learns from past interactions. Examples are virtual assistants. See
Siri and
Google Assistant.
3 - DOMAIN SPECIFIC: highly skilled in a specific field. For example, AlphaGo beat a human Go champion. See
Google Brain.
4 - REASONING: an AI that resembles human intelligence. See
ChatGPT.
5 - GENERAL INTELLIGENCE: like a human mind with self-awareness. See
AGI.
6 - SUPER AI: a super intelligence that outperforms humans in many areas. See
AGI.
7 - SINGULARITY: computers make all the decisions. See
technology singularity.
Another Opinion
AI is such a new and overwhelmingly popular subject that many technologists have opinions.
0 - NARROW, NON-AI.
1 - EMERGING, NARROW AI
2 - COMPETENT NARROW AI equal to 50th percentile of skilled adults.
3 - EXPERT NARROW AI equal to 90th percentile of skilled adults.
4 - VIRTUOSO NARROW AI equal to 99th percentile of skilled adults.
A Different Take
The following was published in 2021 by Bernard Marr on Linked. The explanations are brief excerpts.
1 - REACTIVE AI: recommendation engines, spam filters and chess playing.
2 - LIMITED MEMORY AI: historical data combined with programming to make predictions.
3 - THEORY OF MIND AI: meaningful conversation with an AI.
4 - SELF-AWARE AI: theoretical.
And Another
The following was published in 2023 by Harvey Ross in "AI in Plain English." The explanations are brief excerpts.
1 - SCRIPTED INTELLIGENCE: follow the rules like software.
2 - REACTIVE AI: navigates environment in real time like robotic vacuum cleaners.
3 - LIMITED MEMORY AI: learns from limited historical data like a product recommendation algorithm.
4 - CONTEXT AWARE AI: learns from huge amounts of data like the GPT models.
5 - THEORY OF MIND AI: robotic systems anticipate human needs.
6 - SENTIENT OR SELF-AWARE AI: makes autonomous decisions.
7 - SUPER INTELLIGENT AI: surpasses human intelligence.
8 - IMMORTAL AI: theoretical.