ANI -> AGI -> ASI -> ...

In conversations with mostly non-tech people, I've noticed a growing belief, perhaps fueled by marketing and hype, that today's AI can handle almost any task and even better than humans.

However, the current reality is that we are at the stage of Artificial Narrow Intelligence (ANI) and nobody knows when and how we will achieve AGI. So let's make it more visual:

  1. Artificial Narrow Intelligence (ANI) refers to systems that are designed to perform narrowly defined tasks. These systems follow predefined rules or patterns learned from data. They do not possess understanding or consciousness.
  2. Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) refers to systems that possess the ability to understand, learn, and apply knowledge across a wide range of tasks at a level comparable to human intelligence.
  3. Artificial Super Intelligence (ASI), is a theoretical form of AI so advanced that it is smarter than the human brain.

Yes, there is a belief that crazy professors have already created AGI in their hidden laboratory and that, at any moment, they will introduce it to the world. However, experts predict that AGI might be achieved somewhere from the "reasonably close-ish future" to a skeptical 2080 year.