1. Discuss the difficulties in measuring the intelligence of machines.
2. In 2017, McKinsey & Company created a five-part video titled “Ask the AI Experts: What Advice Would You Give to Executives About AI?” View the video and summarize the advice given to the major issues discussed. (Note: This is a class project.)
3. Explore the AI-related products and services of Nuance Inc. (nuance.com). Explore the Dragon voice recognition product. (Limit the answer to one page of analysis)
An essential challenge in artificial intelligence is the allusion to the popular belief that nobody knows what intelligence is, particularly for systems designed with “cognitive” capacities which are fundamentally disparate to human beings. Some scholars acknowledge the term “Universal Intelligence” (Kapoor, 2015). However, Universal Intelligence is harder to delineate as it is independent of on only one factor (Kapoor, 2015). Thus, the widely accepted definition of Artificial Intelligence is “Intelligence measures agents’ general capability to function in a variety of contexts. Extant research show that “intelligence of a system” is determined by a number of factors. Principally, the environment crucially determines the scope of intelligence of a system.
The restaurant is named after the Atchafalaya Swamp, where the Atchafalaya River and Gulf of Mexico converge to form the largest swamp in the United States. This swamp is the only growing delta system left in Louisiana, with wetlands that are almost stable, and making up more than 35% of the Mississippi River Delta, it’s larger than the Florida Everglades. With over 500 different species of wildlife, 22 million pounds of crawfish harvested each year, and the largest nesting concentration of bald eagles in the southern United States, this area seems to be thriving. Unfortunately, all other swamps and basins considering part of the Delta are depleting at an alarmingly fast rate.
The degradation of “The Sportsman’s Paradise” hurts not only the environment, but also the economy. According to a 2012 study conducted by the Fisheries Economics of the U.S, the Gulf of Mexico marine industry employed nearly 20 million people across Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi, and Florida. The commercial fishing location quotient (CFLQ) for Louisiana topped the region at 1.38. This basically means that the level of commercial fisheries employment in Louisiana is almost 1.5 times higher than the nationwide average. Louisiana’s landings revenue topped the southeast at $331 million, almost twice as much as the runner-up, Texas. Just to put into perspective the economic impact of fishing trips on the state, recreational fishing trips impacted Louisiana at $4 trillion, with total trip expenditures topping $2.8 billion. The Mississippi River Delta plays a major role in the economies of Louisiana and Mississippi; once this wildlife refuge becomes used up, people all across the southeast that rely on the marine