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IT: Artificial Intelligence

Subject : it-skills
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1. An autonomous entity which observes and acts upon an environment (i.e. it is an agent) and directs its activity towards achieving goals (i.e. it is rational).






2. Software that uses a knowledge base of human expertise for problem solving - or clarify uncertainties where normally one or more human experts would need to be consulted.






3. Computers lack common sense which is the wealth of knowledge and understanding about the world that people share. This is especially important when words have more than one meaning. Common sense is necessary to give meaning to things that are said. A






4. A special kind of database for knowledge management - providing the means for the computerized collection - organization - and retrieval of knowledge. Also a collection of data representing related experiences - their results are related to their pro






5. A form of many-valued logic derived from fuzzy set theory to deal with reasoning that is fluid or approximate rather than fixed and exact.






6. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively; 'workers in AI hope to imitate or duplicate intelligence in computers and robots'. EXAMPLE: C3PO from star wars (fiction) or Computer control






7. Involves identifying recurring patterns in input data with the goal of understanding or categorizing that input. It is used in biometric applications e.g. finger print recognition - handwriting recognition - scientific data analysis - surveillance sa






8. Refers to experience-based techniques for problem solving - learning - and discovery. Heuristic methods are used to speed up the process of finding a good enough solution - where an exhaustive search is impractical. Examples of this method include us






9. Is the ability for a computer to communicate in a natural language. There have been developments e.g. parsing programs where sentence structure is analysed and words identified to be verb - subject or other and words are looked up in the dictionary a






10. Is the breaking a complex job into smaller - simpler tasks and completing these simultaneously. A human can do this but a computer cant






11. Are programs as they learn from mistakes






12. In computer science - and specifically the branches of knowledge engineering and artificial intelligence - ______________ is a computer program that tries to derive answers from a knowledge base. It is the 'brain' that expert systems use to reason ab






13. Is a classic test of machine intelligence where the computer is considered intelligent if it can successfully pose as a person in a typed conversation.