Can I Use AI on My Program?
Day before yesterday, a colleague asked me if I had any tools that would be “good for managing a large set of airborne radars, electronic jammers, and related systems”. We had a nice discussion about what artificial intelligence tools were good for and how to apply them on a large project.
What am I good for?
During our conversation, it occurred to me that there are probably a large number of “laymen” that are not part of the artificial intelligence research or engineering community that are in the same situation as my colleague. She has heard the term “artificial intelligence” or AI, but doesn’t know whether AI tools and approaches would help her with her specific program.
So without a background in AI, how do managers make decisions about whether to pursue AI solutions in their endeavors? The sine qua non is a good layman’s outline of example occasions with a bit of explanation.
This needs to be something more than the typical description of how to apply a given technique to the traveling salesman problem or another classical artificial intelligence problem.
Given the need, I will be doing a series of short posts to scratch this itch.
Stay tuned….
Thursday, March 19th, 2009