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Strong AI
Strong AI (also called Artificial General Intelligence or AGI) refers to a system that can perform any intellectual task a human can—reasoning, planning, creative thinking, emotional understanding—across all domains without retraining.
No strong AI system currently exists. The pursuit of AGI drives much of frontier AI research at labs like OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepMind, and raises profound questions about safety and alignment.
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Weak AI
AI designed and trained for a specific task, lacking general cognitive abilities.
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General AI
AI that exhibits cognitive functions across multiple domains, like human general intelligence.
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AI (Artificial Intelligence)
Simulation of human intelligence processes by machines, particularly computer systems.
Techniques & Methods
AI Alignment
The research field and engineering practice of building AI systems that reliably pursue goals humans actually want, remain controllable, and avoid harmful side effects — operationalized through RLHF, Constitutional AI, evaluations, and interpretability.