In today's economies, human activities are built around knowledge workers, who are to be knowledgeable in their practice. These knowledge workers are scarce resources, expensive and limited.
A mechanic diagnosing a malfunctioning component accurately, or a lawyer pinpointing the relevant legal code, or a medical doctor who detects cancer early, are all considered
knowledgeable practitioners.
Furthermore, it has always been desirable to augment and assist human experts, with the tools and machines, to perform their job more thoroughly and effectively. Such machines should
possess a knowledgeable person's attributes such as possessing real knowledge of the field and certain level of cognition. Apparently, a technology to build such machines, falls into
the realm of artificial intelligence (AI).
Artificial Intelligence aims to assist us humans to perform such activities much faster at lower expenses. The AI utilises information processing power of currently available data
processing devices, which are a lot superior than that of humans, and practically their unlimited lifespan, combined with enabling and sound theoretical formulations and algorithms to achieve this goal.
It can be argued that Knowledgeable machines are the genesis of building any
artificially intelligent beings/systems with real utilities.
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