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pplications Intelligent machines can do more than play chess or make cars. One really useful application is to make use of their excellent memories. Everything we know about a subject can be programmed into a machine, which can then be used as an electronic expert. This has already been tried for medical conditions. The machine processes all the facts about the patient’s problem, figures out what it is, and comes up with the right treatment.

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be able to find ways of programming itself to think
One day a device with artificial intelligence might
machines are much smarter than we are. thinking. We could end up in a world in which
Thinking about thinking
better programming and therefore even smarter
more efficiently. This would then lead to even

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Artificial intelligence When we learn, nerve cells in our brains are rewired into new networks. Engineers have found ways of making computer circuits automatically do the same thing in response to good or bad results. This means they can “learn” anddisplay what is known is what and display as artificial intelligence.

difficult and demands immense computing power—
Understanding intelligence
Getting machines to act intelligently is proving very
which just shows how complex our brains are.
know how human intelligence works, and But part of the problem is that we do not really we cannot replicate something that we do a not understand. We might be able to e get simple computers to think intelligently if we only knew how to program them.

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