At A Glance - Broad AI - Disruption Hub

Currently, our AI systems tend to be built for a specific purpose. This is Narrow AI – artificial intelligence that is designed to complete one highly defined task. Common applications for Narrow AI include tasks such as image recognition, automatic video recommendations on sites such as YouTube and Netflix, and the natural language processing ability of the Amazon Alexa digital personal assistant. Whilst Narrow AI systems can excel at executing highly complex tasks, their abilities are limited. A Narrow AI programme that is extremely advanced in its field will be unable to solve tasks outside of that domain – even if they are technically much simpler.