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Business and AI
Designed
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Artificial Intelligence
A field
Domains
of AI
Three major areas
Cognitive science
Robotics
Natural interfaces
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Cognitive
science
Focuses on researching how the human
brain works & how humans think and learn
Applications
Expert systems
Adaptive learning systems
Fuzzy logic systems
Neural networks
Intelligent agents
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Robotics
Produces
Neural Networks
Computing
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reasoning
Allows for approximate values and inferences
Allows for incomplete or ambiguous data
Allows fuzzy systems to process incomplete
data and provide approximate, but acceptable,
solutions to problems
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Genetic Algorithms
Uses
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Virtual Reality
Computer-simulated
reality
Relies on multisensory input/output devices
Allows interaction with computer-simulated
objects, entities, and environments in three
dimensions
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Intelligent Agents
A software
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Expert Systems
A knowledge-based
Provides
Must
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Components
Knowledge
base
Software resources
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Knowledge
base
Contains
Facts
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Software
Resources
Contains an inference engine and other
programs for refining knowledge and
communicating
Inference engine processes the
knowledge, and makes associations
and inferences
User interface programs, including an
explanation program, allows
communication with user
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by a knowledge engineer
Works with experts to capture their
knowledge
Works with domain experts to build the
expert system
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Benefits
Can
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