AI glossary / The basics

Superintelligence

The basics, also called ASI

A hypothetical AI far smarter than humans at nearly everything. It doesn't exist.

More words in The basics

• 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.
• AI assistantA chatbot built to help with everyday tasks: answering questions, writing, planning, summarising. ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Copilot are all AI assistants.
• AI literacyKnowing enough about AI to use it well and question it sensibly. It's what this site is for.
• AlgorithmA set of step-by-step instructions a computer follows to get something done.