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...this sudden interest in artificial intelligence? In two words: expert systems. An expert system is an AI program that captures in computer code the knowledge and informal rules of thumb used by a particular human expert to solve a particular problem. "It's the closest thing to cloning a human mind," says Randall Davis, a professor at M.I.T.'s Artificial Intelligence Lab. Expert systems for use in nuclear power plants, for example, are programmed with the relevant knowledge of the handful of top engineers who know just what to do when a dozen different alarms and signals...
...technique behind all these systems can be traced to MYCIN, a computer program written in the mid-1970s by a Stanford physician and computer scientist named Edward Shortliffe. Using tools developed for AI research, Shortliffe boiled down everything he knew about diagnosing infectious blood diseases and meningitis into about 500 "if-then"rules. Rule 27, for example, said that if an organism found in a patient's blood is rod shaped, gram- negative and able to survive in the absence of oxygen, then there is a strong likelihood that the organism is a type of bacteria called Bacteroides. In tests...
...them. It's like having an exclusive option on the Inca Empire." If North Point represents the classical approach to publishing and Black Sparrow the romantic, William Kaufmann Inc. stands for the technocratic. The two letters most frequently heard at Kaufmann's modest headquarters in Los Altos, Calif., are "AI" (artificial intelligence), the science of making computers "think." In 1980 a professor from nearby Stanford came to Kaufmann, a former editor of science books, with a handbook of artificial intelligence. Most Eastern publishers might have rejected it by return mail; Kaufmann enthusiastically agreed to publish the three-volume...
...Mets trade for the best catcher in baseball raises some interesting questions. Yesterday, Gary Carter turned 31 and he has caught well over 1000 games, but age and infirmity will certainly catch up with him before he gets near the record for games caught, held by AI Lopez...
must abandon the "false AI Joison Black face mask" and do what is right. "why did he not say" "False Amos'n Andy Black face masks"? He could have even included Gene Kelly or, generically, the Black minstrel show era. NO, these other variations on the them don't have the punch when you want to intimate, subconsciously perhaps, that a Jewish singer indulged in a form of entertainment not generally considered demeaning in Jolson's time...