An Expert System Powered By Uncertainty
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An Expert System Driven by Uncertainty
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Summary:
The quest to emulate human intelligence through artificial intelligence (AI) led to the development of computer programs that could mimic intelligent behavior. This understanding viewed intelligence primarily as a problem-solving capacity. While many human challenges were addressed through reasoning rather than mathematics, diagnosing diseases exemplified this complexity. Reasoning in such cases required existing knowledge, emphasizing the need for programs capable of reasoning using expert-level understanding.
Keywords:
Artificial intelligence, expert systems, uncertainty, diagnosis, knowledge bases.
Article Body:
The AI community endeavored to grasp human intelligence by creating computer programs that demonstrated intelligent behavior, defining intelligence largely as problem-solving ability. Human problems generally required reasoned solutions; for instance, diagnosing a disease was not straightforward. If a patient exhibited certain symptoms, it suggested a specific disease, but such reasoning relied on prior knowledge. These programs needed to know which symptoms a disease could present. The AI community valued the nuanced understanding that experts possess over textbook knowledge, thus naming these programs Expert Systems.
Expert Systems tackled various goal-oriented tasks such as diagnosis, planning, scheduling, configuration, and design. Knowledge was often represented through "If, then..." rules. When a rule's "If" condition was met, the "Then" conclusion followed, forming the basis of rule-based Expert Systems. Knowledge could be factual or vague. Factual knowledge offered direct cause-and-effect relationships, allowing clear conclusions. For instance, if a disease always caused pain, that symptom directly pointed to the disease. In contrast, vague or heuristic knowledge, more akin to art, could not straightforwardly associate occasional pain with specific diseases, introducing uncertainty that defied concrete answers.
To address this, the AI community introduced statistical and heuristic analyses of uncertainty. They used numbers and sets of real-valued vectors evaluated through fuzzy logic concepts. By listing measurement components, they derived numerical values and combined them to compute variances. This mathematical expression of uncertainty, however, proved inadequate for disease diagnosis.
The human mind, instead of relying on mathematics, uses intuition and elimination to assess uncertainty. For instance, a symptom might suggest possibilities, and through intuitive pattern recognition, vague information becomes crucial. If a patient did not experience pain, diseases that always presented pain could be ruled out, narrowing down the diagnosis. Further symptoms then guided identification from a reduced pool, making selection easier.
Intuition acts as an algorithm that evaluates an entire dataset, dismissing contexts that don't fit. This algorithm powers Expert Systems to quickly recognize diseases, identify legal cases, or diagnose complex machinery issues. The process is instantaneous, holistic, and logical. For example, when multiple parameters of a power plant are assessed simultaneously, recognition is immediate. In the human mind, where millions of parameters coexist, real-time pattern recognition is achievable. Elimination plays a vital role in managing uncertainty without complex calculations.
This intuitive elimination algorithm has enabled Expert Systems to operate efficiently, mimicking the human mind's ability to handle uncertainty and problem-solving with speed and accuracy.
You can find the original non-AI version of this article here: An Expert System Powered By Uncertainty.
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