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How is AI really used?
How can we benefit both todayand in the future?
What are the Strengths and Weaknesses?
"The aim of Artificial Intelligence is to create intelligentmachines and through this, to understand the
principles of intelligence. At the moment, we cansettle for creating less stupid machines.”
-John L. Gordon
Two Distinct Ideas
1. Using computers to simulatehuman mental processes
2. Using computers to think
independently of the waypeople think
1. Do not require common sense to solve
2. Are generally well understood
3. Can be described objectively
4. Human expertise is often scarce
5. Expertise is needed in a variety of locations
6. There are considerable advantages in reaching anoverall answer quickly
Decision Support
Don’t trust a machine to make a full decision?
Can’t remember everything and needa little help?
Want to be reminded of situations toconsider?
…decision support is for you!
Decision Making
Are you unfamiliar with a particular area?
Don’t want to hire a real expert?
Don’t want an industrial disaster?
…a decision making system is for you!
Have smaller decisions to make?
IF the infection is a primary bacteremia
AND the site of the culture is a sterile site
AND the suspected portal of entry is the gastrointestinal tract
THEN there is suggestive evidence (.7) that the infection isbacterioid
Advantages
Permanent expertiseExpertise easily reproduced
Consistent Results
Can hold significant amounts of information
Inexpensive
Consider transactions that humans overlook
Disadvantages
Lack of human common sense
Difficult to promote creative responses
Cannot explain logic
No response
Lack of flexibility