Weak artificial intelligence ( weak AI ), also known as narrow AI , is artificial intelligence that is focused on one narrow task. Weak AI is defined in contrast to either strong AI (a machine with consciousness , sentience and mind ) or artificial general intelligence (a machine with the ability to apply intelligence to any problem, rather than just one specific problem). All currently existing systems considered artificial intelligence of any sort are weak AI at most.

The ethics of artificial intelligence is the part of the ethics of technology specific to robots and other artificially intelligent beings. It is typically divided into roboethics , a concern with the moral behavior of humans as they design, construct, use and treat artificially intelligent beings, and machine ethics , which is concerned with the moral behavior of artificial moral agents (AMAs).

Computer vision is an interdisciplinary field that deals with how computers can be made for gaining high-level understanding from digital images or videos . From the perspective of engineering , it seeks to automate tasks that the human visual system can do.

Automated reasoning is an area of computer science and mathematical logic dedicated to understanding different aspects of reasoning . The study of automated reasoning helps produce computer programs that allow computers to reason completely, or nearly completely, automatically. Although automated reasoning is considered a sub-field of artificial intelligence , it also has connections with theoretical computer science , and even philosophy .

Artificial general intelligence ( AGI ) is the intelligence of a machine that could successfully perform any intellectual task that a human being can. It is a primary goal of some artificial intelligence research and a common topic in science fiction and future studies . Artificial general intelligence is also referred to as " strong AI ", " full AI " or as the ability of a machine to perform "general intelligent action". Academic sources reserve "strong AI" to refer to machines capable of experiencing consciousness .

In futures studies , human extinction is the hypothetical end of the human species . This may result from natural causes or it may be anthropogenic , i.e. the result of human action.