Specific Applications * Game Playing - refers to programming computers to play games such as chess and checkers * Speech Recognition – is a technology where computers recognize human language to perform such task. * Understanding natural language – allows computers to understand natural human languages. * Computer vision – makes useful decisions about real physical objects and scenes based on sensed images. * Expert Systems – refer to programming computers to make decisions in real life situations * Heuristic Classification – is one of the most feasible kinds of expert system given the present knowledge of AI. This will put some information in one of a fixed set of categories using several sources of information.
Turing Test * Was designed to satisfactorily identify if the machine is intelligent. * To pass the test, the machine should posses the following: * Natural language processing to enable It to communicate successfully. * Knowledge representation to store information provided before or during the interrogation. * Machine learning to adapt to new circumstances and to detect and extrapolate patterns. * Computer vision to perceive objects. * Robotics to move about.
Web Technology
Internet
* Refers to a collection of computers and cables forming a communication networks. * Intended to carry computer data, similar to telephone network which is intended to carry conversations. * Carries a various data, including e – mail, video conferences, instant messages and contents of Web pages.
Intranet
* is a private network contained in an enterprise that includes connections through one or more gateway computers to the outside internet.
Extranet
* a private network that uses Internet technology and the public telecommunication system to securely