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Narrow AI
Narrow AI describes a system built and trained to perform one specific task well, such as translation or image classification, with no ability to generalize beyond it.
Prerequisite: Artificial intelligence
What matters
Almost every AI system in production today is narrow: a chess engine cannot drive a car, and a translation model cannot diagnose an illness, even though each performs its own task at a high level.
Example
A model that only classifies whether an X-ray shows a fracture is narrow AI, however accurate it is, because it cannot perform any other task.
Common misconception
Narrow AI is not a lesser or outdated category; it is the category that includes essentially all deployed AI systems today.
Recall question
Why can a highly accurate narrow AI system still not perform an unrelated task?
Keywords and related concepts
narrow AItask-specific modelgeneralizationartificial general intelligence