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Types of AI: Narrow AI vs. General AI vs. Superintelligent AI // 4.5 REPOST

2025/3/19
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A Beginner's Guide to AI

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Had to repost this episode, as I now had a ChatGPT 4.5 preview and the quality of the content is at least one level higher than ChatGPT 4, which I used before 🚀


AI isn’t just one thing—it comes in different flavours, from simple task-doers to the mind-bending idea of superintelligent machines that might one day outthink us all. In this episode, we break down the three key types of AI:

  • Narrow AI, which powers your favourite voice assistants and recommendation engines;
  • General AI, the still-unrealised dream of machines that think like humans; and
  • Superintelligent AI, the mind-blowing concept of an intelligence that could surpass us in every way.

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Through real-world examples like IBM’s Watson on Jeopardy! and DeepMind’s AlphaGo, we explore where AI stands today—and where it might be headed. Will AI ever become self-aware? Should we be excited or terrified? And why does Siri struggle with even the simplest life advice?

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This podcast was generated with the help of ChatGPT 4.5, Mistral, and Claude 3. We do fact-check with human eyes, but there still might be hallucinations in the output. And, by the way, it's read by an AI voice.

Music credit: "Modern Situations" by Unicorn Heads.