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  Introduction: The Substitution of Human Faculties with Technology: Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems


Research in artificial intelligence, starting in the 1960s, yet formulated a new goal: the automation of thought processes with intelligent machines. Although first attempts to develop "thinking" machines had only little success as the aimed at solving very general problems, the invention of expert systems marked a breakthrough. Albeit the application of those semi-intelligent systems is (still) restricted to quite narrow domains of performance, such as taxation and medical image interpretation, they are able to mimic the knowledge and reasoning capabilities of an expert in a particular discipline. While the development of intelligent machines, which are able to reason, to generalize and to learn from past experience is not likely to become reality in the very near future, research in artificial intelligence progresses quickly and sooner or later the substitution of men's unique faculties will come true.




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Slave and Expert Systems
-3   Introduction: The Substitution of Human Faculties with Technology: Early Tools
-2   Introduction: The Substitution of Human Faculties with Technology: Powered Machines
-1   Introduction: The Substitution of Human Faculties with Technology: Computers and Robots
0   Introduction: The Substitution of Human Faculties with Technology: Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems
+1   Early Tools and Machines
+2   The 17th Century: The Invention of the First "Computers"
+3   The 18th Century: Powered Machines and the Industrial Revolution
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