Chapter 7 - Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems

http://www.umd.umich.edu/dept/armenian/papazian/robots.html

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND MACHINE TECHNOLOGY: MASTER OR SLAVE? A long essay on Artificial Intelligence written by a professor.

http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/space/06/04/casper/index.html

NASA satellites to use artificial intelligence. Software that can make decisions without guidance from humans will guide a

constellation of spacecraft that launch in 2002, according to NASA. The concept of Artificial Intelligence is crearly exemplified in this article where a NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory team is building AI into the onboard software of three satellites.

http://ai.miningco.com/compute/ai/library/weekly/aa052101a.htm

This article demonstrates how artificial intelligence is being used to create original paintings, poems, and stories. There exists a program, AARON, which is able to provide you an infinite series of original pieces of art. Moreover, there's a project being

worked on that will be able to generate unique short fiction stories of up to 500 words. This new and sophisticated artificial technology perfoms fine artwork which reveals the level of creativess that computers are attaining.

http://www.usc.edu/dept/engineering/TTC/newsarchives/dec98_softbots.html

This is related to our reading in that softbots are a specific direction that some of the AI developers have taken. It is in my opinion one of the most promising since it takes an expert system and places it in a controllable environment.

http://ai.about.com/compute/ai/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://www.aaai.org

This site shows the evolution of A.I. It shows what it accomplished and where it failed. It has links to other sites, just in case you need to branch off.

http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_email.asp?/news/394544.asp

What happens when Darwin meets Mario? Feed magazine's Steven Johnson reports on the new breed of game software.

http://users.powernet.co.uk/adams/Artint.htm

Different definitions of artificial intelligence base on the definition of intelligence. The conceptual creation of AI on 1943 and its posterior development.

http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200-6194715.html

This article is about new operating system, due out this fall, will let marketers deliver targeted advertisements to consumers based on the shows they watch while maintaining consumers' privacy. The technology uses artificial intelligence, not personally identifiable information, to determine someone's tastes and the kinds of ads that person might want to see. This article shows us where and how the artificial intelligence can be used and is directly related to chapter 7.

http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200-6185074.html

The following is an article about a professor who is creating a doctoral program relating to chess and artificial intelligence. The goal is to develop machines to eventually have the power of the most intelligent human mind.

"http://biz.yahoo.com/bizwk/010608/2v_wyumrva0exht_llcidq.html

Here is an article that explains how some companies are using artificial intelligence to screen resumes and to predict how long a person will stay on the job. It also claims such companies as Microsoft, Sun Microsystems and SW Airlines are currently using it.

http://computer.org/intelligent/articles/AI_controversies.htm

AI?s Greatest Trends and Controversies: experts' opions about AI developments.

http://www.singinst.org/seedAI/general.html

This article expalins what is AI and its similarities to a human brain. This article is directly related to the chapter 7 we discused in class.

http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/ptech/03/31/bots/index.html

http://www.cmd.sci.fi/

This is a link to a page where you can undergo a diagnostic. It can check for different ailments that an individual has. I think it is kind of weird that u can do this online rather than visiting a personal Doctor. Well it just goes to show that we now have a computerized workplace, where individuals don't have to be in a doctors office to get diagnosed. U can try it out. I didn't try it cause there is a fee, but I think u can. It looks very cool. !!!