Artificial Narrow Intelligence (ANI) belongs to the fields of artificial intelligence, automation and digital transformation. This form of artificial intelligence specialises in solving a single, clearly defined task particularly well. In contrast to human intelligence or more advanced artificial intelligence, ANI can do nothing other than exactly what it was created for.
A simple example of Artificial Narrow Intelligence (ANI) is speech recognition on your smartphone. When you speak to your mobile phone and it understands your text, this is usually ANI. The system cannot make any independent decisions or adapt to new topics, but only concentrates on recognising and translating your speech.
Search engines, spam filters in emails and personalised advertisements also work with ANI. They analyse data according to defined patterns and may learn new things, but remain within their narrow field of application.
Artificial Narrow Intelligence (ANI) makes our everyday lives more convenient and automates many processes, but does not provide answers to questions outside its area of specialisation. It is therefore a cornerstone of modern technologies, but remains narrowly focussed and predictable.