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Narrow AI

The basics

AI built for one job, such as filtering spam or recommending films. Every AI in use today is narrow to some degree.

More words in The basics

• Natural language processingThe field of getting computers to understand and produce human language.
• Recommendation systemAI that suggests what you might like next, such as films on Netflix or products on Amazon. Probably the AI you use most without noticing.
• SuperintelligenceA hypothetical AI far smarter than humans at nearly everything. It doesn't exist.
• Turing testA classic test of whether a machine can pass as human in conversation. Once a milestone, now seen as a weak measure of intelligence.
• AGIArtificial general intelligence. A still-hypothetical AI that could do any thinking task as well as a person. People disagree on how close it is, or what would count.