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What is the distinction between strong and weak artificial intelligence?

  • A.Whether a system uses symbolic or statistical methods internally
  • B.Whether a system was trained on large or small quantities of data
  • C.Whether a machine genuinely has a mind or merely simulates one
  • D.Whether a system is general purpose or specialised to one task

Answer: C

The strong position holds that a suitably programmed machine would genuinely have mental states, while the weak position claims only that machines can act as if they were intelligent. Almost all working research proceeds on the weak assumption, which is sufficient for engineering purposes. Generality, method and data scale are separate distinctions, and the general versus narrow contrast is often confused with this one. Keeping a philosophical claim separate from an engineering one avoids a great deal of fruitless argument.

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