Analytics

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For the ice hockey term, see Analytics (ice hockey).
Analytics is the discovery, interpretation, and communication of meaningful patterns in data; and
the process of applying those patterns towards effective decision making. In other words, e.
Organizations may apply analytics to business data to describe, predict, and improve business
performance. Specifically, areas within analytics include predictive analytics, prescriptive
analytics, enterprise decision management, descriptive analytics, cognitive analytics, Big Data
Analytics, retail analytics, supply chain analytics, store assortment and stock-keeping
unit optimization, marketing optimization and marketing mix modeling, web analytics, call
analytics, speech analytics, sales force sizing and optimization, price and promotion modeling,
predictive science, credit risk analysis, and fraud analytics. Since analytics can require extensive
computation (see big data), the algorithms and software used for analytics harness the most
current methods in computer science, statistics, and mathematics. [1]

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to artificial intelligence:
Artificial intelligence (AI) – intelligence exhibited by machines or software. It is also the name
of the scientific field which studies how to create computers and computer software that are
capable of intelligent behaviour.

Contents

 1What type of thing is artificial intelligence?

 2Types of artificial intelligence

 3Branches of artificial intelligence

 4Further AI design elements

 5AI projects

 6AI applications

 7AI development

 8Psychology and AI

 9History of artificial intelligence

 10AI hazards and safety

 11AI and the future

 12Philosophy of artificial intelligence

 13Artificial intelligence in fiction

 14AI community

 15See also

 16References

 17Further reading

 18External links

What type of thing is artificial intelligence?[edit]

 A form of intelligence

o Synthetic intelligence – intelligence of a man-made yet real quality: actual, not

fake, not simulated

 A type of technology

o A type of computer technology

 A computer system that performs some intellectual function

o An emerging technology

 A field:

o An academic discipline

o A branch of science

 A branch of applied science

 A branch of computer science

Types of artificial intelligence[edit]

 Weak AI (narrow AI) – non-sentient machine intelligence, typically focused on a narrow
task (narrow AI).

 Strong AI / artificial general intelligence (AGI) – (hypothetical) machine with the ability to
apply intelligence to any problem, rather than just one specific problem, typically meaning "at
least as smart as a typical human". Its future potential creation is referred to as
a technological singularity, and constitutes a global catastrophic risk (see Superintelligence,
below).

 Superintelligence – (hypothetical) artificial intelligence far surpassing that of the brightest

and most gifted human minds. Due to recursive self-improvement, superintelligence is
expected to be a rapid outcome of creating artificial general intelligence.
Branches of artificial intelligence[edit]
By approach[edit]
 Symbolic AI – When access to digital computers became possible in the middle 1950s, AI
research began to explore the possibility that human intelligence could be reduced to symbol
manipulation.

 Interpretational AI - Inputs such as words are used to identify the abstract representations
of the things (like, but not limited to: objects, characteristics and actions) that words are
intending to describe within natural language.

o Good Old Fashioned AI –

 Sub-symbolic –

o Early cybernetics and brain simulation –

o Behavior based AI –

 Subsumption architecture –

o Nouvelle AI –

o Soft computing –

 Computational creativity –

 Machine learning

 Neural networks –

 Hybrid neural network –

 Recurrent neural network –

 Perceptron

 Support Vector Machines (SVM)

 Fuzzy systems –

 Evolutionary computation, including:

 Evolutionary algorithms –