The field of Intelligent Systems? Why should I care?
Intelligent Systems is an umbrella discipline focusing on the study of adaptive, smart, AI-based systems. It’s member fields include Machine Learning, classical Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, and Robotics. Why should you care about it? Because the field of Intelligent Systems has a lot to offer smart companies and smart web designers.
I am preparing a series of posts about how an understanding of Intelligent Systems can help you build better things. I will write primarily about techniques from Machine Learning, whose focus is the study of numerical and statistical techniques to make computers learn and adapt. I will be writing these articles over the next few weeks, so stay tuned.
To whet your appetite, here are some examples of what these techniques can do: Riya, spam filtering, machine translation, clustering, podcast transcription, OCR, driving directions, and MSN’s new search (’search’ is a machine learning problem). And, of course, Google PageRank, AdSense, Sets, and everything else they do.