ITGS – Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Creating a system that produces results comparable to human intelligence.

AI system that attempts to mimic the neurons and synapses in the human brain.

Logic in which clauses can have one of two states - such as yes or no, true or false.

Use of logical statements to come to a conclusion.

Use of previous answers (right or wrong) to improve the decision making process next time.

A logic system that allows for true, false, and variations in between.

System to recognise human writing and convert it to text.

General rules for performing a task, used to improve the perform of searching algorithms in AI applications.

Software designed to make the same decisions that a human expert would, in a given knowledge domain.

Software used to create expert systems.

Part of an expert system which attempts to relate the users input with knowledge stored in the knowledge base.

Rule used by the inference engine in an expert system to describe the relationship between key concepts.

Area of an expert system where all facts about the knowledge domain are stored.

Area of knowledge in which an expert system specialises.

Programmer responsible for entering expert knowledge into an expert system.

Technique for making a computer produce better results by learning from past experiences.

Techniques for processing human languages to enable a computer to understand their meaning.

Apple's 'Siri' is an excellent example.

Computer system that can process spoken language and understand its meaning.

Computational Intelligence technique where computers are trained on examples and learn to recognise similarities between them.

Proposed test to see if a computer is intelligent or not.

Part of an expert system that accepts users inputs and presents answers.

Robot designed to look like a human, with lifelike skin and other features.

Robot which operates without human intervention.

Techniques to let computers and robots see and understand the world around them.

Robot designed generally like a human - bipedal, upright, and arms, and a head.