[1-3] What's the difference between strong AI and weak AI?


Strong AI makes the bold claim that computers can be made to think on
a level (at least) equal to humans and possibly even be conscious of
themselves.  Weak AI simply states that some "thinking-like" features
can be added to computers to make them more useful tools... and this
has already started to happen (witness expert systems, drive-by-wire
cars and speech recognition software).  What does 'think' and
'thinking-like' mean?  That's a matter of much debate.

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