Strong artificial intelligence may refer to:
"Strong Artificial Intelligence (AI) is an artificial intelligence that constructs mental abilities, thought processes, and functions that are impersonated from the human brain. It is more of a philosophical rather than practical approach."
Computer science
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Artificial general intelligence: a hypothetical machine with the ability to apply intelligence to any problem, rather than just one specific problem.
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Human-level intelligence: a hypothetical machine with a similar intelligence to an average human being.
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Superintelligence: a hypothetical machine with a vastly superior intelligence to the average human being.
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Artificial consciousness
Artificial consciousness (AC), also known as machine consciousness (MC) or synthetic consciousness (; ), is a field related to artificial intelligence and cognitive robotics. The aim of the theory of artificial consciousness is to "Define that wh ...
: a hypothetical machine that has
subjective conscious experience,
sentience
Sentience is the capacity to experience feelings and sensations. The word was first coined by philosophers in the 1630s for the concept of an ability to feel, derived from Latin '':wikt:sentientem, sentientem'' (a feeling), to distinguish it fro ...
and
mind
The mind is the set of faculties responsible for all mental phenomena. Often the term is also identified with the phenomena themselves. These faculties include thought, imagination, memory, will, and sensation. They are responsible for various m ...
.
Philosophy
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The strong AI hypothesis: the philosophical position that a computer program that causes a machine to behave exactly like a human being would also give the machine subjective conscious experience and a
mind
The mind is the set of faculties responsible for all mental phenomena. Often the term is also identified with the phenomena themselves. These faculties include thought, imagination, memory, will, and sensation. They are responsible for various m ...
, in exactly the same sense that human beings have minds. (Also known as
Functionalism (philosophy)
In philosophy of mind, functionalism is the thesis that mental states (beliefs, desires, being in pain, etc.) are constituted solely by their functional role, which means, their causal relations with other mental states, sensory inputs and behavio ...
or the
Computational theory of mind).
See also
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Weak artificial Intelligence
Weak artificial intelligence (weak AI) is artificial intelligence that implements a limited part of mind, or, as narrow AI, is focused on one narrow task. In John Searle's terms it “would be useful for testing hypotheses about minds, but would ...
, which is intelligent only in a limited task specific field
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Artificial general intelligence
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