TYPES OF AI

ARTIFICIAL NARROW INTELLIGENCE (ANI)

The ability of an AI to perform and complete a single task. These tasks can include facial recognition, browsing the internet or playing games like chess. While classed as intelligent, these AI systems are limited to their programmed task.

ARTIFICIAL GENERAL INTELLIGENCE (AGI)

The intention of AGI is to perform a task in a comparable way to humans. It would theoretically replicate the human brain and its ability to analyse and respond to multiple stimuli at once. This is still an emerging type of AI and is not yet fully realised.

ARTIFICIAL SUPER INTELLIGENCE (ASI)

At the point at which an AI program supersedes human cognitive ability and can ‘think for itself’, it will become an artificial super intelligence. An ASI system would theoretically think extraordinarily and achieve things a single human being might not.