- The most common AI today is Narrow AI, designed to perform specific tasks without awareness or real understanding of the context.
- Although still in development, General AI is the type of AI that would enable machines to reason, learn or adapt to circumstances.
- Merely theoretical, Super-intelligent AI is understood to be Artificial Intelligence that would surpass human intelligence in every aspect, including those as ‘personal’ as social skills or creativity.
Artificial Intelligence can be defined as the ability of machines to imitate how humans not only learn but also reason, learning to perform tasks and even improve them based on the information available to them, just as a human being would.
When it comes to distinguishing between the different types that exist, we can find several possible classifications. In this case, let’s look at the main characteristics of Artificial Intelligence according to its capacity or level of intelligence.
Artificial Intelligence according to its capacity
According to the level of intelligence or capacity, we can find three different types of AI, one of which is the most widespread and another which, who knows if only for the moment, is still at the theoretical stage.
Narrow AI
Narrow Artificial Intelligence (or ANI) is technology designed to perform specific tasks, as it refers to systems trained for a specific purpose.
Although this may seem like a disadvantage, it is not, as it serves to ensure that the functions assigned to it are carried out.
It lacks awareness or real understanding of the context around it, and is currently the most common form of AI, found in everyday applications such as chatbots, voice assistants, recommendation systems and facial recognition.
General AI
While in the previous case we talked about ANI, in this case we are talking about AGI (Artificial General Intelligence), which goes one step further by allowing reasoning, learning or adaptation to intellectual tasks typical of humans.
This type of AI, still in the theoretical phase, could perform any intellectual task with an autonomous learning capacity that would provide it with a high degree of adaptability.
As much as current systems such as Chat GPT have made enormous progress, intelligence comparable to that of humans has not yet been achieved.
Superior AI
After ANI and AGI, we come to ASI: Artificial Superior Intelligence, a type of AI that exists only in theory and science fiction.
These are models that would surpass human intelligence in such varied and diverse areas as decision-making, social skills and creativity.
The ability to self-improve and make complex decisions autonomously would lead to increased ethical debates and control over all the possibilities that machines would have.
Telefónica’s position on artificial intelligence
Telefónica’s position on AI is based on the premise that it enables quick decision-making, optimises manufacturing processes and minimises operating costs, but with a design or use that ‘is not without risks’.
To this end, the company stresses that ‘the biggest challenge we face today is to design a governance model for AI that can harness its full potential’, adding that the scope of this technology is not limited to national borders, which requires global approaches and solutions.
To this end, it advocates a governance model based on three pillars: global guidelines, self-regulation and risk-based regulation.
