Two kinds of intelligence

There's a useful distinction here.

Narrow intelligence is the ability to do one specific thing very well. A chess engine beats world champions. A translation program translates better than most humans. An image classifier spots tumours in X-rays that radiologists miss.

General intelligence is what humans have: the ability to do many different things, to learn a new task from minimal instruction, to apply knowledge from one domain to a completely different one.

Most AI systems people use are narrow. Extremely powerful in their lane. Unable to leave it.

The chess engine that beats Magnus Carlsen cannot tie its shoes, understand a children's book, or navigate a new room without being specifically trained to do so.

Whether is something machines can ever have, or whether it requires something machines don't have, is the question this whole module has been preparing you to ask.

Two kinds of intelligence

There's a useful distinction here.

General intelligence is what humans have: the ability to do many different things, to learn a new task from minimal instruction, to apply knowledge from one domain to a completely different one.

Most AI systems people use are narrow. Extremely powerful in their lane. Unable to leave it.

The chess engine that beats Magnus Carlsen cannot tie its shoes, understand a children's book, or navigate a new room without being specifically trained to do so.

Whether is something machines can ever have, or whether it requires something machines don't have, is the question this whole module has been preparing you to ask.