Current Trends in AI and AI Applications

Current Trends in Al and Al Applications

Autonomous Planning and Scheduling        

NASA's Remote Agent program became the first on-board autonomous planning program to control the scheduling of operations for spacecraft. Such remote agents can do task of detecting, diagnosing and recovering from problems as they occurred.

Game Playing

A computer chess program by IBM named as Deep Blue defeated world chess champion Garry Kasparov in exhibition match in 1997. Such type of gaming programs can be developed using AI techniques.

Autonomous Control

The ALVINN computer vision system was trained to stear car to keep it following a lane. It was made to travel 2850 miles in which 98 % of the time control was with the system and only 2% of the time human took over. AI can give more theories to develop such systems.

Diagnosis

Heckerman (1991) describes a case where a leading expert on lymph node pathology scoffs at a program's diagnosis of an difficult case. The machine can explain the diagnosis. The machine points out the major factors influencing its decision and explain interaction of several of the symptoms in this case. If such diagnostic programs are developed using AI then highly accurate dignosis can be made.

Planning

In 1991 during the persion Gulf Crisis U.S. forces deployed a dynamic analysis and replanning tool name DART for automated logistics planning and scheduling for transportation.

Al can provide techniques for making fast and accurate plans.

Robotics

For doing complex and critical tasks systems can be developed using AI techniques. For e.g. Surgeons can use robot assistants in microsurgery which can generate 3D vision of patients internal anatomy.

Language Understanding and Problem Solving

PROVERB is computer program which expert in solving crossword puzzles.

It can make use of constraints or possible word fillers, a large database of past puzzles and variety of information sources including dictionaries and online databases. Such as a list of movies and the actors that appears in them.

AI does not generate magic or science fiction but rather it can develops science, engineering and mathematics system.

Recent progress in understanding the theoretical basis for intelligence has gone hand in hand with improvements in the capabilities of real systems. The subfields of AI have became more integrated and AI has found common ground with other disciplines.