Artificial Superintelligence — the upgraded AI
Hi there AI enthusiasts, it’s nice to have you back. We told you in our past article that we are going to take each term from the glossary and define it. Today’s term as you guessed, Artificial Superintelligence. Let’s see what this is.
ASI definition
Artificial Superintelligence, or ASI for short means that computers become so smart you say they could escape by acting like humans — mimicking human cognition and knowledge and everything. To be more precise like the replicants from Blade Runner.
Is ASI real?
The short answer is not yet. According to Quora, we have not reached yet the ability to build such a performant system. Today, Artificial Intelligence is narrow and can focus only on one thing, like winning at Jeopardy, poker and chess, playing podcasts, tweeting and answering questions. However, the idea of Artificial Superintelligence is anything but new. In the ’50s, Alan Turing designed the infamous Turing Test, which went from the premise that Artificial Intelligence can think by itself, and one could not discern between it and a human mind.
Unfortunately, in the present we can talk about Artificial Superintelligence only in hypothetical terms and situations. Probably, after AI will become something mundane as electricity, ASI could be perceived as an upcoming reality.
