AI Definition: Narrow AI
/Narrow AI – The use of artificial intelligence for a very specific task or a limited range of tasks. For instance, general AI would reference an algorithm capable of playing all kinds of board games, while narrow AI would limit the range of machine capabilities to a specific game like chess or Scrabble. Google Search queries, Alexa and Siri answer questions by using narrow AI algorithms. They can often outperform humans when confined to known tasks, but often fail when presented with situations outside the problem space where they are trained to work. In effect, narrow AI can’t transfer knowledge from one field to another. Narrow AI techniques fall into two categories: symbolic AI and machine learning.