Concept
Weak artificial intelligence
Overview
Weak artificial intelligence (weak AI) is artificial intelligence that implements a limited part of the mind, or, as narrow AI, artificial narrow intelligence (ANI), is focused on one narrow task.
Weak AI is contrasted with strong AI, which can be interpreted in various ways:
Artificial general intelligence (AGI): a machine with the ability to apply intelligence to any problem, rather than just one specific problem.
Artificial superintelligence (ASI): a machine with a vastly superior intelligence to the average human being.
Artificial consciousness: a machine that has consciousness, sentience and mind (John Searle uses "strong AI" in this sense).
Narrow AI can be classified as being "limited to a single, narrowly defined task. Most modern AI systems would be classified in this category." Artificial general intelligence is conversely the opposite.
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Like all other things that can come into relation to the will, men who are favourable to the ends which happen to be desired, who further and befriend them, are called good, in the same sense, and always with that relative limitation, which shows itself, for example, in the expression, “I find this good, but you don’t.” Those, however, who are naturally disposed not to hinder the endeavours of others, but rather to…
Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Idea
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Obj. 3: Further, "actions came before powers," as the Philosopher says (De Anima ii, 4). But intelligence is an act separate from others attributed to the intellect. For Damascene says (De Fide Orth.
Aquinas Thomas, Summa Theologica, Part I
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For the power of any emotion is limited by the power of the external cause as compared with our own power. But the power of the mind is limited solely by knowledge, whilst impotence or passion is estimated solely by privation of knowledge, or, in other words, by that through which ideas are called inadequate; and it therefore follows that that mind suffers the most whose largest part consists of inadequate ideas, so…
Benedictus de Spinoza, The Philosophy of Spinoza
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Related ideas
- Artificial intelligence
- Alan Turing
- John Searle
- Sentience
- Turing test
- Speech recognition
- Consciousness
- Philosophy of mind
- Artificial consciousness
- Self-driving car
Place in the tradition
Part of Mind.
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