noun

• A piece of software which uses databases of expert knowledge to offer advice or make decisions in such areas as medical diagnosis.

  ‘Similarly, non-biological entities such as expert systems, computer viruses or artificial intelligence could conceivably be considered to be ‘alive’.’

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  • ‘Unlike other artificial intelligence systems, like medical expert systems, COG was meant to test theories of human cognition and developmental psychology.’
  • ‘An inference engine is the component of an expert system that applies a knowledge base to current data to arrive at a conclusion.’
  • ‘Artificial intelligence and other expert systems offer only a faint hope that a solution to this glut is forthcoming.’
  • ‘Artificial intelligence might cover technical advances in such areas as machine vision, robotics, expert systems, neural networks, the understanding of natural language and automatic language translation.’