From the course: AI Accountability: Build Responsible and Transparent Systems
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General and narrow AI
From the course: AI Accountability: Build Responsible and Transparent Systems
General and narrow AI
- [Instructor] You're probably familiar with Aesop's Fable about the tortoise and the hare, where the underrated slow tortoise, by virtue of its consistency, beats the overrated and speedy hare in a race. Or you may be familiar with the principle of natural selection. The phrase "survival of the fittest" is often taken to mean survival of the biggest, strongest, and so on, like being a fit person. But what it really means is the survival of the things that best adapt to or fit their environment. So for example, in the Permian extinction, 250 million years ago, big scary, ferocious animals like the tyrannosaurus rex went extinct, but fungi did great in part because they had a lot more decomposing matter to consume. They fit the environment better, so they thrived. And this gets us back to an important distinction in AI, and it has to do with the comparison of two forms of AI. The first one we'll call general or strong AI. This is where the goal is to create machines that ideally or…
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