Artificial Intelligence for

Business

A.K. Swain

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 Quote

The shovel is a tool, and so is a bulldozer. Neither works

on its own, “automating” the task of digging. But both
tools augment our ability to dig.
Dr. Douglas Engelbart

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 AI Definition
Artificial Intelligence is the study of how to make
computers do things at which, at the moment,
people are better.
Rich 2009

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a field of study that

encompasses computational techniques for performing
tasks that apparently require intelligence when performed
by humans… It is a technology of information processing
concerned with processes of reasoning, learning and
perception.
Tanimoto, 1987

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 AI Systems

What is Intelligence?

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 Search Based AI Systems
General Problem Solver (GPS): Proposed by
Simon and Newell in 1963.
Search Space: Where the AI based systems
search for a solutions.
Solution Space: A solution space contains
solutions to a problem represented through
many actions, or beliefs that that corresponds to
the status of the problem. It is essentially a
model of the problem domains.

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 AI for Games
Successful implementations:
• Chess Program: Deep Blue – Defeated the
reigning champion Garry Kasparov in 1997.
• Checkers Program: Chinook – Placed second
in the U.S. National Open in 1991.
• AlphaGo
• Jeoparady!
• Poker Program – DeepStack – Defeated
professional poker players at HUNL with
statistical significance.
• Atari etc…..
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Automobile Diagnosis
Searching in the Solution Space
How to Reach Eiffel Tower?
 Search Based Methods

• Contain basic domain knowledge

• Capture and represent relevant
knowledge and provide a way to reuse
it.
• Use general heuristic knowledge to
guide the search
 Search Based Methods

• Algorithmic
• Random search
• Systematic blind search
• Heuristic based search
Algorithms and AI: Correlation
Algorithmic Enterprise
Maturity Model
Image Classification: AI vs. Humans
Evolution Towards AI
The END

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