1. Based on the capabilities of AI

i. Artificial narrow intelligence

Artificial narrow intelligence, ANI or Narrow AI, also called “Weak” AI, is goal oriented and is designed to perform singular tasks intelligently and extremely well without any human intervention.

Language translation and image recognition are examples of common uses for narrow AI. Siri is capable of processing human language and submitting a request to a search engine for retrieval. It explains why Siri is unable to answer abstract and complex queries that require emotional intelligence. It’s mere digital assistance to perform basic inquiries and tasks.

Even if Narrow AI appears to be considerably more sophisticated, it operates within a pre-determined, predefined scope. It can attend to a task in real-time, but they pull information from a specific dataset. In fact, what may appear as a complicated AI as a self-driving automobile is labeled Weak AI.

Narrow AI is unable to think. They lack the capability for autonomous reasoning, self-awareness, consciousness, and genuine intelligence.

ii. Artificial general intelligence

Artificial general intelligence (AGI), also called “Strong” AI, is an intelligent system with comprehensive or complete knowledge and cognitive computing capabilities.

In today’s world, no true AGI systems exist and remain the stuff of science fiction. Sci-fi movies like “Her,” where a human interacts with a machine displaying broad intellectual capabilities to learn, reason, and make own decisions and judgments, while understanding belief systems. True AGI intellectual capacities would exceed human capacities because of its systems’ ability to process huge data sets at incredible speeds. 

iii. Artificial super intelligence

Artificial superintelligence, or ASI, will be human intelligence in all aspects. ASI is a futuristic notion and idea about AI capabilities to supersede human intelligence. It will be self-aware and intelligent enough to surpass the cognitive abilities of humans.

Many are concerned about ASI and its impact on humankind Individuals like Tesla CEO Elon Musk warned about the dangers of ASI-powered robots, even predicting “scary outcomes” like in <the movie> “The Terminator.”