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Types of Artificial Intelligence
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Weak Artificial Intelligence
Weak A.I. refers to technology that is able to manipulate predetermined rules and apply the rules to reach a well-defined goal (Bethell, 2006). This type of A.I. is presently incorporated into society, especially in large industries.
Weak A.I. also has a very exciting future. With the exponential growth of computing power at hand, scientists believe that weak A.I. breakthroughs are in the near future. One technology that is projected to emerge is the super-computer.
While all of these breakthroughs seem very promising, the most inspirational technologies that are projected to emerge from the development of weak A.I. are the robotic, genetic and nanotechnological revolutions. These three revolutions are linked together. The thought is that once the human body is decrypted via the revolution in genetics, robots will be able to be made which will serve to treat the various malfunctions of the human body. Once this is accomplished, the hope is that a nanotechnology revolution will take place in which the robots that treat disease will be able to actually be incorporated into our bodies, function autonomously and fix our malfunctions (Kurzweil, 2006). Weak artificial intelligence is presently in use and has a very promising future, but is this technology truly intelligent?
Strong Artificial Intelligence
The second form of artificial intelligence is strong A.I. Strong A.I. refers to technology that has the ability to think cognitively or is able to function in a way similar to the human brain (Bethell, 2006). strong A.I. is still only in the conceptive stage, it is technology that is the fuel that drives the fear associated with artificial intelligence.artificial is technology takes a plunge towards the weak or towards the strong is still debatable ,but the drive to see just how far our technology can go will allow human kind to see and live a truly remarkable period of technological prowess.
The 6 main areas of Artificial Intelligence consist of:
1. Intelligent Systems
2. Knowledge
3. Demons
4. Expert Systems
5. Agents
6. Neural Networks
Examples of artificial intelligence include robots, air conditioning units, autopilots, vending machines, smoke detectors, house alarms, cruise control, automatic soap dispensers, automatic pest sprays, automatic taps/hand dryers, gaming
Importance of Artificial intelligence
The importance of artificial intelligence is the ability to create a never-ending thought process and collective that could solve our problems. Accomplishing this by thinking of every possible solution. We are limited now by the number of people who can do this. With artificial intelligence, we could build computers, upon thousands of computers, that could all work in unison to solve our great and most dire problems. One example is global warming. Whether you believe we are the cause or not, the fact is that global temperatures are on the rise. We need a way out or around or an idea to slow the process down. We need something.. Artificial intelligence could, and should solve this faster than we are or could..
Intelligent machines
Artificial intelligence can be defined as the science and engineering which aims to develop intelligent machines.
A machine is intelligent if it manages to pass itself off as a human when faced with a human.
The Turing test (1950)
Artificial intelligence seeks to develop processes similar to rational human thinking: a chain of events starting from detection, analysis to reflection, and finally, action. Some architectures take into account the intentional attitudes such as desires, beliefs and so on and integrate the practical rationality as a ‘means-ends’ reasoning.