7 Main Types of AI Explained
There are 7 main types of AI that you will hear about. The first is narrow AI, which is what we have today. Tools like ChatGPT and Claude are narrow AI because they are really good at certain things but cannot do everything a human can. The second is general AI, which would be a machine as smart as a human at everything. Nobody has built this yet. The third is super AI, which would be smarter than all humans combined. This is still just a theory. The fourth is reactive AI, which just responds to what is in front of it with no memory at all. Old chess computers worked this way. The fifth is limited memory AI, which is what most AI tools today use. They learn from past data to give better answers. The sixth is theory of mind AI, which would understand human feelings and social situations. We are not quite there yet. The seventh is self aware AI, which would have its own consciousness. This does not exist yet. Most of what you use every day falls under narrow AI and limited memory AI.