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Artificial General Intelligence

Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is a theoretical form of AI. It can understand and apply knowledge to multiple tasks in a way that reflects human adaptability, intelligence, and versatility.

Unlike Narrow AI, which specializes in specific tasks, AGI uses its intelligence to address diverse and unexpected challenges without requiring task-specific programming.

In short, AGI is conceptualized as AI with the same cognitive abilities as humans in various fields.

What Are the Applications of Artificial General Intelligence?

Although AGI systems aren’t available, Narrow AI systems have made themselves indispensable in ways that exceed human abilities in many applications. Some of them include:

IBM’s Watson

IBM’s supercomputer, Watson, is well-known for its advanced abilities in AI technology integration and complex calculations. The healthcare field relies on Watson’s analysis and interpretation of medical data for disease diagnosis and the creation of treatment plans. The supercomputer also interprets complex scientific data like the Big Bang theory.

Expert Systems

Expert systems are AI applications that can make decisions like a human expert. They are used in medical diagnosis, forecasting finances, and making customer recommendations. In healthcare, expert systems recommend patient’s medications by analyzing their symptoms, medical history, and available data.

Automated cars

AGI enables automated cars to navigate roads without human assistance by utilizing sensors, algorithms, and cameras to recognize oncoming vehicles and other obstacles on the road. The cars are programmed to interpret sensor data, identify the correct navigational routes and road signage, adhere to traffic rules, change lanes, turn, or stop when needed.

ROSS Intelligence

ROSS is an AI-driven legal research tool that assists lawyers, and legal researchers in finding relevant case laws, legal precedents, and statutes. The tool analyzes billions of text documents to answer complex legal questions within seconds. It relies on NLP to interpret queries and deliver the most relevant legal information, thereby streamlining complex legal processes.

AlphaGo

A product of DeepMind, AlphaGo is an AI program designed to play the game Go. The program became popular worldwide by defeating the world champion, Lee Sedol. It is programmed with extensive human and computer training, Machine Learning, and tree search techniques. AlphaGo’s success demonstrated AI’s potential for pattern recognition, strategic thinking, and adaptation in solving complex problems.

GPT-3 and GPT-4

GPT 3 and 4 are immensely popular for their capabilities in generating human-like text for content creation, conversation tools, and more. These AI tools can do everything from creating essays and poems and composing emails to code generation. They are trained on extensive text data to generate relevant responses similar to human-written text.

FAQs

1. How is AGI different from AI?

The main difference between Artificial General Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence lies in their scope and capabilities.

AI is a specialized system designed for specific tasks. It demonstrates proficiency in domains such as image recognition and NLP and works on predefined algorithms.
Contrariwise, AGI is a theoretical concept that aims to replicate human cognitive abilities, adaptability, and understanding to execute multiple tasks. Hence, it is not task-specific like AI but can address unforeseen and diverse challenges.

1. Is General AI available?

General AI or Artificial General intelligence does not exist. The currently available AI is often called Narrow AI and is characterized by special systems excelling in specific tasks. However, this AI lacks the adaptability and understanding capabilities of General AI.
Developing an AI system that closely replicates human cognitive abilities is yet to be achieved because human cognition and learning aren’t easy to replicate.

3. What are the current applications of AI?

Currently, AI is used in:

Voice assistants like Alexa and Siri
Customer service chatbots
Recommendation engines used by platforms like Netflix and Google to promote content.
Business Intelligence and analytical tools used for data visualization, sentiment, and data analysis.
Facial and image recognition tools
Deep learning models

4. What is Artificial SuperIntelligence (ASI)?

ASI is a software-based system. It possesses superior cognitive abilities surpassing human intelligence across general knowledge, creativity, social and problem-solving. It can also replicate. Currently, ASI is unavailable and remains in a hypothetical AI state.

5. Is it possible to create AGI?

This is a topic of intense debate in the realm of AI. Although AGI exists only in theories and speculations, it remains a long-term goal for ardent AI researchers. Significant challenges hinder the possibility of AGI despite the advances in overall AI. Even Machine Learning and NLP remain Narrow or specialized AI formats. They lack the adaptable intelligence required to create AGI.