SAS chief data scientist says that we've only built 'weak AI' – so far

TORONTO – When we see artificial intelligence (AI) in fiction, it usually encompasses the AI functioning just like a human. That's called'strong AI' and well, we aren't there yet. There are two types of AI: strong AI, the aforementioned AI that function as a human would; and weak AI, the type of AI we see today. For example: robotics in a manufacturing plant that function autonomously to complete one task is an example of weak AI. "That's where we are [with weak AI], but I think we are trending towards strong AI," said Wayne Thompson, the chief data scientist at SAS, at the analytics vendor's event in Toronto. "We are trending towards what I consider modern machine learning."