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Super Technology of the 2020s: Narrow Super AI, Molecular Electronics, Atom Technology

• https://www.nextbigfuture.com, by Brian Wang

There have been several major things with AI. We are in the age of narrow superintelligence.

Here are some definitions for different categorizations of AI.

Artificial narrow intelligence (ANI) has a narrow range of abilities.

Artificial narrow superintelligence (ANSI) has a narrow range of abilities but those abilities are well beyond human level.

Artificial general intelligence (AGI) is a broad range of abilities that are comparable to the range of intelligence for a human.

Artificial general superintelligence (AGSI)is far more capable than a human across all domains of human intelligence.

Google Assistant, Google Translate, Siri and other natural language processing tools are Narrow AI. They are classified as "Weak" AI because they are nowhere close to having human-like intelligence.

Ray Kurzweil calls "fast thinking" AI intelligence – "weak superhumanity". Google Search is weakly superhuman. It is far faster than human for the task of search.

There have been one million times more computing power devoted to the protein folding problem and drug discovery. Deep Mind has made significant progress in solving protein folding. Alphafold 2 will certainly help to advance biology. It can generate folded structure predictions that can then be used to solve experimental structures by crystallography (and probably other techniques). So this will help the science of structure determination go a bit faster in some cases. This is still short of the 0.3 Angstrom precision needed to be highly useful for drug discovery. However, the work and progress is very promising and it now appears to be a matter of when and not if the problem will be solved in major ways.