Defining The Four Types of Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence is a superpower. It makes us do things faster than we imagined we could. It enables us to perform our tasks better and more efficiently in the 21st century. From miniscule daily tasks to crafting massive marketing campaigns, AI has played an essential role in speeding up things in every arena of our lives.

While we heard a lot of things about AI, do we know that there are different types of artificial intelligence that we utilize daily? Yes, you heard us right. There are various types of artificial intelligence and today, we will be unboxing them here.

Is artificial intelligence worth it? Let’s break it down together:

Artificial intelligence carries the capacity to do things more efficiently and methodically than humans. This is in fields like marketing, sales, healthcare, education and much more. We have AI-powered tools that go beyond the surface-level understanding to tap into opportunities and suggest solutions for real-world problems.

For example, an AI-powered CRM can dig into the psyche of a consumer and help in generating hyper-personalized marketing campaigns for a consumer sect; smart buildings and vehicles can decrease carbon emissions and support people with disabilities.

Artificial intelligence is helping us in our daily function of life and here are the four types of AI we must know about.

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Under the hood – the type of artificial intelligence we must know

Reactive AI

The most basic type of artificial intelligence is reactive AI. It is programmed to produce output in a certain way, which means every time you give the same input, the output is going to be identical as well. Reactive AI machines are not trained to learn from their experience or adapt as per the user behavior.

Some of the common examples of reactive AI are:

• Spam filters in your Google keeping phishing and promotions out of your primary inboxes.
• The Netflix recommendation engine.
• Deep Blue, the chess-playing IBM supercomputer.

While reactive AI is the most basic version of AI, it was a massive step forward in the history of AI development. The limitation of these machines is that they cannot go beyond the tasks they were designed for. Due to the limitations, scientists came up with an advanced level of artificial intelligence – limited memory AI.

Limited memory AI

The next advancement in the field of artificial intelligence was the introduction of limited memory AI. As the name suggests, this type of AI learns from the past and builds experiential knowledge by observing actions or data. This type of AI can perform complex tasks by learning from the past along with the pre-programmed information fed into it. Today, it is the most used AI.

For instance, autonomous vehicles use limited memory AI that helps them observe the speed and direction of other cards, read the road, and adjust their maneuver. Such interpretation and understanding make them safer to run on the roads.

But again, it is a limited memory AI and has its limitations. The information with the autonomous vehicles is transient and is not saved in its long-term memory.

Theory of Mind AI

Wouldn’t you love to interact with a machine that looks like a machine but speaks and sounds like a real human? You would, and that’s one example of theory of mind AI.

Today, this is the most common type of AI we see everywhere. From the automated IVR call centers to websites chatbots, all the based on this type of artificial intelligence only. With such AI, machines acquire true decision-making abilities similar to humans. The AI makes it possible for the machine to remember the interactions and adjust its behavior as per the changing needs of the user.

While this AI is advanced, it is not free from loopholes. For instance, it cannot change emotions as swiftly as humans can. We are creating emotionally intelligent machines, but they cannot mimic real human interaction.

Self-aware AI

The last type of AI is self-aware AI. In such a type of AI, machines can be well aware of their emotions and the emotions of the people around them. Such machines carry a level of intelligence and consciousness similar to human beings. This type of AI has desires, needs, and emotions too.

Machines infused with this type of AI will be self-aware of their emotions and mental states. They can also make inferences that are not possible with another type of AI.

Self-aware AI is not developed yet because we do not have sufficient hardware or algorithms to support it.

Wrapping up

With artificial intelligence, there is no stopping and we will keep bringing in new facets of the technology. You never know with time we will have a fifth type of artificial intelligence. Only time will tell the type of progress we make in the upcoming decades.

But the question begs – will AI be able to replace humans completely in the future? Try to answer it in the comments

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