CH 13 Flashcards
Define artificial intelligence (AI).
Consists of related technologies that try to simulate and reproduce human thought behavior, including thinking, speaking, feeling, and reasoning.
What are 3 applications of soft robots?
- High-speed food handling
- Precise pick and place
- Advanced assembly
What is the role of knowledge acquisition facility in an expert system?
A software package with manual or automated methods for acquiring and incorporating new rules and facts so the expert system is capable of growth.
Define case-based reasoning (CBR).
A problem-solving technique that matches a new case (problem) with a previously solved case and its solution, both stored in a database.
What are 4 categories of intelligent agents?
- Shopping and information agents
- Personal agents
- Data-mining agents
- Monitoring and surveillance agents
What is fuzzy logic?
Allows a smooth, gradual transition between human and computer vocabularies and deals with variations in linguistic terms by using a degree of membership.
What are 3 examples of companies that are using machine learning (ML)? Mention the specific applications of machine learning in these companies.
- Yelp: ML assists the company to compile, categorize and label millions of images more efficiently.
- Facebook: ML is used to improve customer service and retention and filter out spam and poor-quality content.
- Pinterest: ML is used as recommendation algorithms, used for advertising monetization, and reduces churn of email newsletter subscribers.
What are 5 categories of natural language processing (NLP) systems?
- interface to databases
- machine translation, such as translating from French to English
- text scanning and intelligent indexing programs for summarizing large amounts of text
- generating text for automated production of standard documents
- speech systems for voice interaction with computers
