narrow-ai-vs-general-ai
While AI excels in specific tasks, such as game playing, it remains limited in general intelligence capabilities like common sense and natural language understanding.
1 chapter across 1 book
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies (2014)Nick Bostrom
Chapter 12 surveys the current state of artificial intelligence, highlighting its superhuman performance in various games such as chess, checkers, and Jeopardy!, while noting the narrowness of these achievements. It discusses the challenges AI still faces in tasks requiring general intelligence, such as natural language understanding and common sense reasoning, and illustrates the broad application of AI technologies in fields ranging from robotics to speech recognition and military uses. The chapter also reflects on the evolving standards of what counts as AI and the possibility that simpler, more general algorithms might yet be discovered.