Humanity spent several million years as hunter-gatherers; several thousand in the agricultural age; several hundred in the industrial age; several decades in the information age; and now we are racing into the cognitive age. Warfare changed in each of these eras. The cognitive age is defined as an era in which objects become smart, share information and learn from each other through machine learning. As Kevin Kelley, the founder of Wired magazine, stated, Artificial Intelligence (AI) "will enliven inert objects, much as electricity did more than a century ago. Everything that we formerly electrified we will now cognitise." The Al that orchestrates this age is properly called Artificial Narrow Intelligence (ANI), which completes tasks based on a set of defined rules (algorithms) to solve problems. ANI is what we have today running our computers, our machinery, and our military systems. Examples of ANI include Siri, Alexa and the Echo Dot. ANI usually works and it normally does what we programme it to do - but it does not see, hear, or think. Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is the next step in the development of Al. This is Al that is roughly equal to the human brain. AGI could see, hear, and think, but is currently the stuff of science fiction. AGI does not exist - at least not yet.
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