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What is AI, Artificial Intelligence?
Artificial intelligence is the intelligence of machines or software, as opposed to the intelligence of humans or animals. It is a field of study in computer science that develops and studies intelligent machines. Such machines may be called AIs.
The four functional types of AI are:
- Reactive Machines.
- Limited Memory.
- Theory of Mind.
- Self-aware.
Artificial general intelligence (AGI) is a hypothetical type of AI that can learn, understand, and perform tasks as well as humans. AGI is a theoretical goal that researchers are working towards.
How AGI differs from other AI
- Cognitive capabilities: AGI can match or exceed human cognitive abilities, while narrow AI is limited to specific tasks.
- Learning: AGI can learn new skills and solve complex problems in new situations.
- Knowledge: AGI has a vast knowledge of the world, including facts, relationships, and social norms.
AGI's potential benefits Increasing the abundance of resources, Turbocharging the global economy, and Discovering new scientific knowledge.
Understanding intelligence, whether we describe it as artificial or not, is an ongoing process.
Discussions about what defines intelligence and the technologies that we now refer to as Artificial Intelligence are not new and reach back into antiquity.
Millennia before engineering or software, robots and artificial intelligence were brought to life in Greek myths. The author of "Gods and Robots Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology", Adrienne Mayor traces the link between technology and tyranny from modern day concerns over AI to back to antiquities fear of beings were "made, not born.”
Personally, I don't love the term Artificial Intelligence for a few reasons. Technoculture recognizes that AI is a natural outcome of the process of technological evolution, which itself is a natural extension of the Biosphere. As technology is an inherently natural phenomenon, AI is in this sense not quite artificial. Because definitions of intelligence depend on a great deal of context and are everchanging, this word might limit our understanding of what AI actually is.
Understanding AI means understanding non-human intelligence, a vast endeavor in and of itself rooted in a post-humanist philosophical outlook that parallels the practices and philosophies of many indigenous cultures.
It will require us to examine the implications of defining intelligence and subsequently training AI around primarily Western, White, and cisheteronormative concepts of the mind. It requires us to decenter human thought as the pinnacle of consciousness and cognition and follow the thread of mind that might be present in all parts of nature.
In this section, we'll learn about the fundamental principles that underpin what we define as AI, some of the specific technologies that make it possible, the applications, and how our understanding of it all continues to evolve.
My intention is to work collaboratively with peers and industry professionals to develop a living legal and ethical framework for the development, and implementation of “Artificial Intelligence”.