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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is concerned with the development of computer programs that emulate the intelligence of humans, i.e., AI is deeply concerned with the understanding of human problem-solving strategies and incorporating (or simulating) these strategies into computer programs. For the past few decades AI researchers have been trying hard to impart some problem solving abilities to the computer. In the early 50’s AI researchers, notably Newell and associates, attempted to develop general problem solvers. These programs performed impressively in small domains, such as solving the monkey-bananas problem.1 In the early 60’s researchers realized that for solving problems of practical interest in a reasonable amount of time, computer programs needed domain specific heuristic2 This led to the development of computer programs that incorporated domain specific heuristics in the late 60’s, specially by Feigenbaum, Moses, and other researchers, knowledge, since human experts use heuristics which are learned and refined over several years of problem-solving in that domain.
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Sriram, R.D. (1997). Knowledge-Based Expert Systems: An Overview. In: Intelligent Systems for Engineering. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0631-9_1
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