Larry Has Written a Computer Program That Monitors and Makes

Multiple Choice

Larry has written a computer program that monitors and makes decisions about the relative amounts of chemicals to use in the process of creating a high-quality plastic material. His program simulates the decisions experts would make if they could monitor the production of the material during every second of the process. These sorts of technological advances are part of

A) artificial intelligence.
B) formal reasoning.
C) option evaluation.
D) probability estimation.