Blog Post Week 4B

Threat modeling is a process by which potential threats can be identified, enumerated, and prioritized. Artificial Intelligence can be described as a wide-ranging branch of computer science concerned with building smart machines capable of performing tasks that typically require human intelligence. Al uses machines as opposed to Natural Intelligence displayed by animals or people.

Artificial Intelligence is used to solve problems, act to achieve a specific goal, and make tasks easier to complete. Examples of Al include Siri, Alexa, self-driving cars, conversational robots (Kuki AI), and Netflix recommendations.

The three types of Artificial Intelligence are Narrow (ANI), General (AGI), Superintelligence (ASI). Narrow Al is designed to perform a single task, and any knowledge gained from completing that task will not automatically be applied to other tasks. Narrow Al is where we are at today and where we have been, and General Al is where we want to head in the future General Al is the hypothetical ability of an intelligent agent to understand or learn an intellectual task that a human being can. It is also referred to as strong Al. Superintelligence Als a hypothetical agent that possesses intelligence far surpassing that of the brightest and most gifted human minds. A speed superintelligence could do everything a human mind could do, and much faster.

The Turing test is a test of a machine’s ability to exhibit intelligent behavior. A human is to communicate with both a human and an Al through text, and then the arbiter selects which one they think is human and which is the Al. Kuki is a good example of this. The idea of the test is that if the arbiter selects the Al, then human-level intelligence has successfully been created programmatically through the Al.