Artificial+Intelligence

=Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems= toc

Social and Ethical Issues

 * responsibility for the performance of an expert system (knowledge engineer, informant programmer, company that sold it, the buyer/consumer)
 * importance of AI as a field to invest money
 * ethical issues of various applications of AI, eg replacing human workers, decision making handled by computers
 * social impact of the use of 'smart' machines on everyday life
 * ethical issues related to military applications eg smart weapons
 * implications of creative production by computers using AI
 * access to the knowledge base underlying an inference engine in an expert system

Knowledge of Technology
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 * Key terms: AI, Turing test, parallel processing, machine learning, natural language, common-sense knowledge, agent, pattern recognition, expert system, knowledge base, inference engine, heuristics, fuzzy logic, knowledge engineer, domain
 * storage requirements for common-sense knowledge
 * processing requirements for AI
 * collection/creation of a knowledge base
 * creation of an inference engine eg if/then rules, fuzzy logic
 * identifying domains that are suitable for expert systems

Resources
[|Wikipedia] definition for AI [|Wikipedia] definition for Expert system Beekman, G. (2006). [|Computer Confluence]. Seventh edition. Prentice Hall. Chapter 15: Is Artificial Intelligence Real? ThinkQuest: [|Expert Systems] The Teacher: [|Expert Systems in Medicine] An expert system [|example] Another [|definition and discussion] about what an expert system is [|Expert Systems]: good info page [|Medical expert systems] [|Definition] with image

Tasks
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 * 1) Read Beekman Chapter 15. Complete all multiple choice questions on page 610.
 * 2) Choose two key terms (not those found in Q3 here) from the list above. Find 3 definitions of each term. Copy and paste these into your document. Now, write your own, user-friendly definition based on these 3. Aim for originality and clarity. Give an example (recent article or website) to support your definition and explanation of the term.
 * 3) What is a knowledge base? What is an expert system? How are the two related?
 * 4) What kinds of human jobs are most likely to be eliminated because of expert systems? What kinds of new jobs will be created because of expert systems?