Definition of Synthetic intelligence

For the strong AI hypothesis, see philosophy of artificial intelligence

Strong AI is a term used by futurists, science fiction writers and forward looking researchers to describe artificial intelligence that matches or exceeds human intelligence. Strong AI is also referred to as the ability to perform "general intelligent action", or as "artificial general intelligence", "artificial consciousness", "sentience", "sapience", "self-awareness" or "consciousness" (although there are subtle differences in the use of each of these terms).