Strong AI is a term used to describe a certain mindset of artificial intelligence development. Strong AI’s goal is to develop artificial intelligence to the point where the machine’s intellectual capability is functionally equal to a human’s.
There are several fundamental differences between the chatbots of the Loebner Prize and a true example of Strong AI. Chatbots are built for the sole purpose of conversation, using increasingly complex algorithms and response databases to determine an appropriate reply to a query or statement. They are an example of Applied AI, where systems are built specifically for one usage. The ideal Strong AI machine, however, would be built in the form of a man, have the same sensory perception as a human, and go through the same education and learning processes as a human child. (Copeland) Essentially, the machine would be “born” as a child and eventually develop to an adult in a way analogous to human development.
Flawed from the outset and distorted by time, the Turing Test has become constraining and ultimately irrelevant to AI development, but it remains an important and historical thought experiment bold enough to imagine the achievement of humanoid intelligence in the early years of artificial intelligence.
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