Strong AI

  1. A quick note on Weak AI at the foot of the page.

  2. Strong AI aims to create intelligent machines that are indistinguishable from the human mind. But just like a child, the AI machine would have to learn through input and experiences, constantly progressing and advancing its abilities over time.

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  4. While AI researchers in both academia and private sectors are invested in the creation of artificial general intelligence (AGI), it only exists today as a theoretical concept versus a tangible reality. 

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  6. While some individuals, like Marvin Minsky, have been quoted as being overly optimistic in what we could accomplish in a few decades in the field of AI; others would say that strong AI systems cannot even be developed. 

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  8. Until the measures of success, such as intelligence and understanding, are explicitly defined, they are correct in this belief. 

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  10. For now, many use the Turing test to evaluate intelligence of an AI system.  more  source

  11.  Weak AI - "The aim is develop theories of human and animal intelligence and then test ... by building working models usually in the form of computer models or robots."  

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