Thoughts about Artifical Intelligence

Why is Artificial Intelligence important in helping develop human-computer interfaces?

2007-11-03T23:04:00.000-07:00

Artificial Intelligence is important in the way of developing human-computer interfaces. It is important, as its goal is to make a computer more ‘human’.

By this, I’m not just talking about the parts of computer of which we see, but also what ‘makes’ the computer.

Artificial Intelligence tries to make many aspects of the computer ‘more’ human, such as; the language, vision, sounds and the accessibility for the disabled.

The language within the computer, today, is very mechanical, more robot, than how we humans talk to each other. This is one of the many things which Artificial Intelligence strives to achieve, to make the computer language easier to understand and for the machine to understand us more clearly.

Vision and sound, which we see as speakers and cameras, are aiming to become built in to all computers as well as performing better and easier to maintain.

These were just a few examples; there are many more aspects of the ‘computer’ which Artificial Intelligence is developing in which to make it ‘more human’.

Heuristics

2007-10-23T04:21:00.000-07:00

Heuristics is, basically, rule of thumb or trial and error. Its a method which helps in solving a problem. Usually, heuristics is used when a problem leads to an answer, which has to be close to correct.

An example of heuristics is walking up a hill, as long as the result increases, and when the result decreases you slow down. You can walk any direction as long as its not down the hill, if you do that then you will reach your destination (summit).

Another example, is used in a doctors office. Using the expert system, the doctor inputs the patients symtoms and an answer will show, which fits in with the patients symtoms (this is used in most doctor surgeries).

The Turing Test

2007-10-09T21:26:00.000-07:00

The Turing Test is a test to see if a computer is intelligent.

The test works when one person (collegue) is sitting on one side of a wall, on the other side of the wall there is a computer and there is a person with a computer (patient)...as seen in the above picture

The collegue asks questions (commands) and has to guess who responds, if its the person on the computer or the computer. If the collegue guesses wrong then the computer passes the 'test'.