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What is meant by Artificial Narrow Intelligence (ANI)?

Artificial Narrow Intelligence (ANI) Explained

Mark Kara
4 min readSep 8, 2024

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Artificial Narrow Intelligence (ANI) Explained

Artificial Narrow Intelligence (ANI) refers to AI systems that are designed and trained to perform specific tasks or solve specific problems. ANI, also known as Weak AI, operates within a limited, predefined range of functions and lacks the ability to generalize knowledge or perform tasks outside its designated domain.

These systems are highly specialized and optimized to execute one task or a small set of tasks very well but do not possess broader cognitive abilities like reasoning or emotional intelligence.

Key Characteristics of ANI:

  1. Task-Specific:
    ANI systems are built to solve a particular problem or perform a particular task, such as image recognition, natural language processing, or playing a game like chess. They cannot transfer their knowledge or capabilities from one task to another.
  2. Lacks Generalization:
    Unlike human intelligence, ANI cannot understand or solve…

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Mark Kara
Mark Kara

Written by Mark Kara

amazon.com/author/markkara Salesforce Marketing Cloud Technical Architect who writes on Technology, Data Science, Finance , Management and who creates Puzzles.

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