Progress in Artificial intelligence

Progress in Artificial intelligence

 Artificial intelligence applications have been used in a wide range of fields including medical diagnosis, stock trading, robot control, law, scientific discovery and toys. However, many AI applications are not perceived as AI: "A lot of cutting edge AI has filtered into general applications, often without being called AI because once something becomes useful enough and common enough it's not labeled AI anymore.""Many thousands of AI applications are deeply embedded in the infrastructure of every industry." In the late 1990s and early 21st century, AI technology became widely used as elements of larger systems, but the field is rarely credited for these successes.

Kaplan and Haenlein structure artificial intelligence along three evolutionary stages: 

1) artificial narrow intelligence – applying AI only to specific tasks; 

2) artificial general intelligence – applying AI to several areas and able to autonomously solve problems they were never even designed for; and

 3) artificial super intelligence – applying AI to any area capable of scientific creativity, social skills, and general wisdom.