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Narrow AI

AI built for a specific task, which is every AI system that currently exists.

Narrow AI performs well inside its intended scope and does not transfer outside it. The label is a contrast with AGI rather than a slight — narrow systems are the ones creating real value today. A general-purpose model can look broad and still be narrow in the sense that matters: it does not act, learn, or adapt beyond its design.

In practice: A model that writes excellent Python cannot drive your car, however fluent it sounds.