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AI Technologies
Artificial Intelligence for Business
Background for MIS 495
Writing Assignment: AIResearch lab at Facebook
What is Artificial Intelligence?
• Representing Human Thought Processes in Machines*
• How to make computers do things at which people are better… *(at
the moment)
*
Decision Support Systems and Intelligent Systems, Efraim Turban and Jay E. Aronson 6th ed, Copyright 2001, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ
Examples of AI
• Learning
• Understanding
• Translating
• Handling problems
• Applying knowledge
• Reasoning and inference
• Solution seeking (heuristics, algorithms)
What does AI look like?
• Expert Systems
• Tech support, airline scheduling, medical diagnosis
• Translating – speech to text, text to speech, languages
• Robotics with sensory systems
• Neural Network (artificial)
• Machine learning
Machine Learning
Inputs: Has 4 feet, has tail, likes water
Possible outputs: Dog, platypus, Siberian tiger…
Popular
• Movies
• Fiction
• Siri and Google
• NY Times – May 2015
The AI Effect
Capacities that were conceived of as AI, exotic
machine simulations of human thought, become
commonplace.
Deep Learning at FB
Facebook Data
Deep Learning
(… Knowledge about the
facebook data domain)
The writing Assignment
• http://yorktown.cbe.wwu.edu/misclasses/mis495_S15/AIwritingAssig
nment.docx