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Week 1 Assignment

Week 1 Assignment

Mahesh Javaraiah

Business Intelligence (ITS-531-B02)

Dr. Suanu Bliss Wikina

University of the Cumberlands

March 31, 2024

Week 1 Assignment

Chapter 1

Discussion Question

Question 1
In the passing days of the last half a year, strategic amount of Decision Support

Systems (DSS) has been evolved in user-case basis. In the medical field it is clinical decision

support systems that are pushing forward the development of fast disease diagnosis and help

reform the medical care delivery. AI and machine learning are being used in these systems

which has immensely increased the precision and effectiveness of clinical processes which

were previously in a state of done manually. Take for example Breast-SlimView technology

that permits AI enhanced diagnostics for breast cancer, and therefore increase radiologists’

accuracy.

In field of agriculture, dispensation of precision farming through DSS is giving great

results. By the use of data from the IoT sensor devices (soil and weather sensors for example)

these systems give farmers advice on what resources to use and what is the best operational

decision to make. While it is the agricultural DSSs innovations that facilitate the successful

crop production management systems; they have the capacity to ensure real time monitoring

to avoid information overload and retain their user friendliness. In these instances the

advantages of DSS are indisputable because, firstly, DSS enable the optimization of the

operational processes and secondly, DSS support the decision-making processes, and so help

make the practice more sustainable, and effective, in these vital sectors.
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Exercise

Question 15
For a long time, Watson IBM has been taking the healthcare field in stride through

various projects. One of theys key standards is the functionality Clinical Decision Support

Systems (CDSS) providing that can help to make umnay decisions based on electronic

medical records and other clinical data. Using AI, machine learning, and natural language

processing these systems have sped up analytics and made low error rate processes in

healthcare workflows across the healthcare system smooth and effective.

Such acquisition as IBM’s involving Merge Healthcare provides extensive medical

images data banks empowering Watson to help doctors and radiosologists to advance

diagnostics. One of the biggest advantages of telemedicine is the capacity to give a second

opinion. This is especially beneficial when doctors are considering whether to make a

diagnosis or not, or to detect potential misdiagnosis and consequently provide treatment

earlier.

In addition to savings from inventory or marketing in other sectors, like precision

farming in agriculture, DSSs are used to process wide data from IoT gadgets, thereby

improving resource use and operational decisions. As such, this is also reflected in Watson

Health app, which shows that IBM strives to bring technology to healthcare, and therefore

revolutionizes it.

Chapter 2

Discussion Question
Appreciating the difficulty of assessing machine intelligence, we ought to consider the

multidimensional nature of the problem, which arises from the fact that intelligence

encompasses both humans and artificial entities, and must be defined in a way that accounts
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for both. A machine obviously does not have all the cognitive advantages that the human

brain has – emotional intelligence, social skills, creative thinking. Machine intelligence is

usually a task-specific narrowly. This makes it difficult to assign a standard value for a

related activity end which is applicable for all case studies. On the contrary, the tests like the

Turing Test performs the role of a mimicry, not understanding the machine's ability.

Obviously those exams just don't measure how the system can perceive the world and its

context, learn or solve problems, nor do they tell us how to generate original ideas or even

how fast to perform a task involving large data sets processing.

On that grounds, the increased sophistication of machine learning algorithms may also

create a situation in which the outcomes that cannot easily be interpreted by humans occur

and the process behind the decision making becomes difficult to pinpoint. Consequently, the

question counts is it suitability of a machine's ability to enhance its performance through a

learning process and recycling itself should define of how its cognition understood. There's

also an ethical dimension: as artificial intelligence (A.I.) become more sophisticated products

engrained into our lives, the level of cognitive abilities machines will possess could influence

how we trust them and depend on them for point decision-making, emphasizing the need for

efficient and comprehensive assessment methods.

Exercises

Question 4
In the McKinsey & Company video "Ask the AI Experts: What AI Recommendations

Would You Offer to Executives? Experts emphsize the necessity to improve practical

abilities of AI using most relevant problems to a particular company. The fact that it is not the

technology alone which presents the key challenge but rather the people - including the great

shortage of practitioners who can translate technology and business impact is one of the most
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important considerations in AI adoption. The necessary here is for those who can analyze the

business problem, identify the technological simple, and understand how to enact the solution

in such a way that it makes the most impact. Such links to strategic and resultant matters

represent a particular problem with the AI—business connection.

The video outlines three critical components driving AI today: data, computing power

and talent will be prime factors. An area of concern is that while AI interest is on the

increase, the availability of highly-skilled engineers with machine learning talents is very

little. For the business that is trying to solve the problems using AI, the question is whether it

is possible to build a specialized machine learning team from within for particular areas or to

leverage the platform enterprise that has built AI technologies. Executive advisers should

look at AI technologies as part of the toolkits, like the pace of web technologies two decades

have witnessed. AI is going to be marked as a basic disrupting factor for businesses in the

next few years, therefore, the customer management and service delivery strategies should be

shifted towards AI.

Question 5
The latest McKinsey & Company video on what is pushing the latest surge in

artificial intelligence identifies several main factors triggering the advances in this sphere

today, the so-called third wave of AI. At first, AI was held back from advancing by a false

image of its abilities and the unavailability of appropriate computing power and data. But the

birth of machine learning which took place nearly two decades ago put the period to a

significant mark. Availability of overwhelming amount of data and drastic drop down in the

cost of computing have allowed AI to grow at a breakneck speed. Internet and mobile tech

has also had great impact on this world making data unparalleled and beyond expectations

with voice, images, or shadow data included. These developments, as well as improvements
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made in algorithms on a continuous and minor scale, have played a huge role in AI's

comeback.

Deep learning technology, however, is the most notable turning point of artificial

intelligence, especially in the last years. At the beginning, the performance of the neural

networks in deep learning was lower than the performance of systems with hand-made

structures such as speech recognition and spam filtering in business applications.

Nevertheless, for about 2012 deep learning systems came out of the shadow and started to

out-beat traditional systems. It looked sudden, eyes courted the research community, but this

was a result of a periodic to the building up revelation. It is true that today the machine

learning is no longer just an auxiliary technology but a basic part of so many existing systems

and, indeed, is taking us one step closer to the future when cognitive systems and AI are

realized. The collection of knowledges and improvements on computing technologies would

go directly to difficulty of problems and getting goals for problems rather than solving the

basic problems.

Question 15
Nuance Inc. gives a set of instruments for the Dragon voice recognition system that

are adjusted for diverse professional tasks. It could be, for example, Dragon Professional,

Dragon Legal, or Dragon Law Enforcement products. These were made to boost productivity

via speech recognition and other simple mobility capabilities. They provide solutions in the

cloud and for local installations unlike other voice-to-text services which aim at ensuring that

the various industries have unique solutions meeting all the recurrent requirements as well as

having security measures. If you need additional information, the page on Dragon Speech

Recognition Solutions at capitalization.