Abstract
People involved in artificial intelligence have often defined it as follows:
‘if it works, it is no longer artificial intelligence’.
This is not a very fortunate working definition of expert systems, considering that less than 10 out of every 100 systems developed have actually been implemented (this is a historic average, the percentage of successful systems is going up gradually). Still, the definition is a good indication of the relationship between artificial intelligence and the sciences derived from it. AI covers a very wide area; when research projects mature, other sciences generally inherit the ideas for implementation. Expert systems form only one application area for AI. After bio-genetics, artificial intelligence may well be the biggest scientific breakthrough since World War II: never have so many sciences collaborated in joint scientific research; few other sciences, if any, can point to so many aspects of everyday life that have been or will be affected by it.
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© 1990 J.C. van Dijk, Paul. A Williams
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van Dijk, J.C., Williams, P. (1990). Artificial Intelligence — Parent Science of Expert Systems. In: Expert Systems in Auditing. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-12474-9_2
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