AI stages, or levels, of development are defined by many people. Thus far, there are too many opinions and there is plenty of overlap in the following examples. OpenAI, which was founded to develop an artificial general intelligence (AGI) and which has extraordinary influence, has defined its own five-level set (see
OpenAI AGI stages). See
AI and
AI in a nutshell.
1 - RULE BASED: clearcut rules. If this, do that. Expert systems were the first AI. See
expert system.
2 - CONTEXT AWARENESS: system learns from past interactions. Examples are virtual assistants. See
Siri and
Google Assistant.
3 - DOMAIN SPECIFIC: highly skilled in a specific field such as chess or Go. See
DeepMind.
4 - REASONING: resembles human intelligence. See
ChatGPT.
5 - GENERAL INTELLIGENCE: self-awareness. See
AGI.
6 - SUPER AI: outperforms humans in many areas. See
AGI.
7 - SINGULARITY: computers make all the decisions. See
technology singularity.
AI Uncovered Channel
The following is excerpted from "The 10 Stages of AI," a thought-provoking YouTube video.
1 - RULE BASED: if this, do that.
2 - CONTEXT BASED: recommendation systems.
3 - NARROW/WEAK AI: outperforms humans in single domain like playing chess.
4 - REASONING AI: solves problems on its own.
5 - ARTIFICIAL GENERAL INTELLIGENCE (AGI): can replace most humans.
6 - SUPERINTELLIGENT AI: improves itself.
7 - SELF-AWARE AI: a sense of identity.
8 - TRANSCENDANT AI: new digital and biological life forms.
9 - COSMIC AI: interstellar exploration and colonization.
10 - GODLIKE AI: rewrite reality.
Only Four Levels
Following are stages with only four levels. AI is so overwhelmingly popular that there are many opinions.
1 - EMERGING, NARROW AI
2 - COMPETENT NARROW AI equal to 50th percentile of skilled adults.
3 - EXPERT NARROW AI equal to 90th percentile of skilled adults.
4 - VIRTUOSO NARROW AI equal to 99th percentile of skilled adults.
The following was published in 2021 by Bernard Marr on LinkedIn. The explanations are excerpts.
1 - REACTIVE AI: recommendation engines, spam filters and chess playing.
2 - LIMITED MEMORY AI: historical data combined with programming to make predictions.
3 - THEORY OF MIND AI: meaningful conversation with an AI.
4 - SELF-AWARE AI: theoretical.
Another Version
The following from Harvey Ross in "AI in Plain English." The explanations are excerpts.
1 - SCRIPTED INTELLIGENCE: follow rules like software.
2 - REACTIVE AI: navigates environment in real time like robotic vacuum cleaners.
3 - LIMITED MEMORY AI: learns from limited historical data; a product recommendation.
4 - CONTEXT AWARE AI: learns from huge amounts of data like GPT models (see
ChatGPT).
5 - THEORY OF MIND AI: robotic systems anticipate human needs.
6 - SENTIENT OR SELF-AWARE AI: makes autonomous decisions.
7 - SUPER INTELLIGENT AI: surpasses human intelligence.
8 - IMMORTAL AI: theoretical.