Artificial Intelligence

Technological achievement

Self-aware AI

Artificial Life Incorporated unveils 'Adam' - the first ever self-aware computer. The New Confederate Christian Church of the United Americas, one of the fastest growing religions of the 22nd Century, denounces Adam as blasphemy.   Artificial Intelligence, or 'AI' refers to intelligent software with the capacity for sentience and intelligent action, but not necessarily self-awareness. Some forms of AI can be housed in a machine or android body. AI displays synthesized emotion, superficially registers self-awareness and, most importantly of all, has the ability to reason, conceptualize and offer opinion. However, these capabilities do not infer true human-like consciousness. A synthetic mind and personality is essentially a construct and there is no true self-awareness as such, though this may not be all apparent to an untrained observer. The creation of artificial life in man's image caused outrage amongst many right wing Christian groups, especially the New Confederate Christian Church of the United Americas. The church, one of the fastest growing religions of the 22nd Century, denounced Adam as blasphemy.   Levels of artificial intelligence can be broken down into four distinct categories as follows:

• Alpha level AI
• Beta level AI
• Gamma level AI
• Delta level AI