This article introduces a ladder of increasingly intelligent machine systems that makes finer distinctions than the commonly used term artificial general intelligence (AGI).

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Summary

Many artificial intelligence (AI) researchers aim to build intelligent machines that achieve parity with human intelligence, which is human-level AI (HLAI). Once machines can be made with this level of intelligence, if given agency, it is conceivable that such intelligent machines could go on to build ever more intelligent machines, with or without human assistance. With machine intelligence reaching levels beyond human capability, the term transcendence or singularity is applied. Between narrow AI (the current state of the art in the form of deep learning neural networks) and transcendence, a set of models form a ladder of increasingly intelligent machines, which are described here.

Introduction

Artificial general intelligence (AGI) or general AI is widely used to refer to what is called HLAI. While AGI is commonly used, it lacks finer distinctions, whereas the label HLAI offers a rich, intelligent system hierarchy, which helps focus research on the different types of AI systems.

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