Strong AI Versus Weak AI Is Completely Misunderstood, Including For AI Self-Driving Cars

Or, if you prefer, you can state it as weak versus strong AI (it's okay to list them in either order). If you've been reading about AI in the popular press, the odds are that you've seen references to so-called strong AI and so-called weak AI, and yet the odds further are that both of those phrases have been used wrongly and offer misleading and confounding impressions. Time to set the record straight. First, let's consider what is being incorrectly stated. Some speak of weak AI as though it is AI that is wimpy and not up to the same capabilities as strong AI, including that weak AI is decidedly slower, or much less optimized, or otherwise inevitably and unarguably feebler in its AI capacities.