There are two main ways to categorise AI: by what it can do (Narrow, General, or Super AI) or by how it interacts with the world (Reactive, Limited Memory, Theory of Mind, or Self-Aware). The last one is the most detailed way to classify AI based on how it works.
| Capabilities | |
| Narrow AI (Weak AI) | Specialised AI designed to perform specific, limited tasks, like facial recognition, virtual assistants |
| General AI (AGI) | A hypothetical future AI with human-like cognitive abilities, capable of understanding, learning, and applying knowledge to a wide range of intellectual tasks without human intervention. |
| Artificial Super Intelligence (ASI) | A theoretical type of AI that would surpass human intelligence in creativity, problem-solving, and awareness, though this level of AI does not yet exist. |
| Functionality Based | |
| Reactive Machines | No Memory and very task-specific. The same input always delivers the same output. Example: Product recommendation system. These systems are very reliable as based on past data. These system not have any memories of their own. |
| Limited Memory | This machine imitates how our brains neurons work together. These machines get smarter as trained on more training data. Example: Deep learning applications like NLP, image recognition and other types of reinforcement learning. These machines have small memories and can remember past experiences and improve over time as it’s trained on more data. Self self-driving car is one example, where these cars monitor speed, direction and proximity of other cars to drive safely. Car have data about the real world, like roads, sensors getting details of roads like bumps or speed breakers, traffic signs, etc. This data is used to maintain the speed of the car, lane change functionality, indicators and other driving things. |
| Mind AI | Future AI. This type of AI will be able to understand the world and how other entities have thoughts and emotions, and relations with others. This is more of a human cloning in terms of cognition. |
| Self Awareness | This can be full evolution of AI where these systems are self-aware and |