What Is The Difference In AI , AGI And ASI

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.

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 AGI is a much harder  task than creating 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.” AGI would be able to do all of those things as  easily as you can.

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.