Advantages of Articial Intelligence

There exist countless advantages to developing advanced AI technologies. A few examples are:

• Control (Air Traffic)
• Debugging
• Design (Computer Configuration)
• Medical Diagnoses
• Instruction/Training
• Interpretation (Speech)
• Monitoring (Nuclear Plants)
• Planning (Mission Planning)
• Factory Scheduling
• Prediction (Weather)
• Repair (Telephone)
  

(The image on the left hand side shows advantages of using an AI expert system as opposed to a human expert.)

As you can see, there exists many applications and advantages to using AI technology. For example medical diagnoses AI technologies can really help cut down wait times at hospitals and clinics. An expert system is defined as "computer software that attempts to mimic the reasoning of a human specialist" (Retrieved from http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/expert+system, on December 1st, 2008. ) By implementing AI expert systems patients who are only experiencing minor discomfort can be diagnosed by AI expert systems and not have to wait for a doctor, thus reducing waiting times in hospitals and clinics because of less patients.

AI can help industries in other areas as well. Speech recognition is one of them. Right now speech recognition works with computers being able to match an input sound with the words associated with the sounds in their databases. The drawback here is that not everyones voice is the same and people have different ways of talking therefore it is not a fool proof method of speech recognition. However, if computers can learn through AI what the context of the word is and what the topic is and analyze the speech patterns of a person and more, they will be able to fill in words that perhaps they do not understand with the most logical word to fit in the sentence. Right now Microsoft word does a little bit of this but nothing too advanced. If a computer is taught to learn and use "judgment" speech recognition softwares will become very accurate and reliable. This can help industries because it speech recognition can help speed up data searches and computer use. Imagine being able to tell your computer that you had a project to do on AI and the computer looks up all relevant information and presents it in a clear and concise document for you to read without having to search for it yourself. That is the future of AI!

Sources

http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/whatisai/node3.html
http://library.thinkquest.org/2705/
http://www.cse.msstate.edu/~hansen/classes/AIspring04/slides/expertsystem.pdf
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2006/06/14/DI2006061402086.html