Exam 14: Artificial Intelligence

In some areas of the brain, an individual neuron may collect signals from as many as 100,000 other neurons and send signals to equally large number of other neurons.

A formal language representation has the disadvantage of extracting the essentials.

Prolog is a logic programming language.

Intelligent searching involves applying some ____ to evaluate the differences between the present state and the goal state, and to move us to a new state that minimizes those differences.

Any knowledge representation scheme we select must be relatively easy to extend and include new knowledge in.

Computational tasks are tasks for which accurate answers need not be found.

A(n) ____ must contain the following components: a knowledge base and an inference engine.

____ begins with assertions and tries to match those assertions to the "if" clauses of rules.

Cause and effect relationships are translated into "what if" statements.

A brute-force approach is commonly used for intelligent chess-playing strategy.

We seek to perform a(n) ____ to find a solution path through the graph.

____ is the study of how we as humans think and learn.

Building a machine that can beat a human at chess is definitively the supreme test of artificial of intelligence.

____ is the branch of computer science that explores techniques for incorporating aspects of intelligence into computer systems.

The human brain uses a ____ architecture, characterized by a large number of simple "processors" with multiple interconnections.

A(n) ____ contains facts about a specific subject domain in order to narrow the scope to some manageable size.

A neural network is presented with ____, for which the correct outputs are known.

A(n) ____ attempts to mimic the human ability to engage pertinent facts and string them together in a logical fashion to reach some conclusion.

Although intelligent agents incorporate a body of knowledge to "filter" their choices and thereby appear to capture certain aspects of human reasoning, they still perform relatively limited tasks.

No practical application has been found yet for intelligent agents in the finance field.