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<strong>HVAC</strong> <strong>Control</strong> <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>New</strong> <strong>Millennium</strong>• mak<strong>in</strong>g decisions based on <strong>the</strong> <strong>in</strong>put of <strong>in</strong>formation, and• generat<strong>in</strong>g actions from <strong>the</strong>se decisions.Learn<strong>in</strong>g is one of <strong>the</strong> more obvious areas of <strong>in</strong>telligence. A lessobvious area <strong>in</strong>volves built-<strong>in</strong> or <strong>in</strong>herited <strong>in</strong>telligence. Built-<strong>in</strong> <strong>in</strong>telligencemay be stored <strong>in</strong> computer memory.<strong>HVAC</strong> control depends on sensor <strong>in</strong>put and <strong>in</strong>terpretation. In <strong>the</strong>future <strong>the</strong>se sensors may <strong>in</strong>clude speech recognition, vision, and touch.Artificial <strong>in</strong>telligence has been important <strong>in</strong> advances <strong>in</strong>volv<strong>in</strong>gsuch areas as expert systems, vision process<strong>in</strong>g, image understand<strong>in</strong>g,speed recognition, speech syn<strong>the</strong>sis, and natural language understand<strong>in</strong>g.Some of <strong>the</strong>se areas are already f<strong>in</strong>d<strong>in</strong>g applications <strong>in</strong> commercialcomputer products <strong>in</strong>clud<strong>in</strong>g <strong>the</strong> Internet.Search eng<strong>in</strong>es like Excite, Infoseek and Lycos allow you to enterqueries <strong>in</strong> pla<strong>in</strong> English. You can type a question as a complete sentence<strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> Search Form text box: “Where can I f<strong>in</strong>d temperature data fornor<strong>the</strong>rn Florida?” In Lycos, you type <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> question <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> search formtext box and select Natural Language Query.Much of artificial <strong>in</strong>telligence is occupied with try<strong>in</strong>g to teachmach<strong>in</strong>es to th<strong>in</strong>k, but artificial <strong>in</strong>telligence is also concerned with howhuman be<strong>in</strong>gs th<strong>in</strong>k. The use of <strong>in</strong>telligent computer tutor<strong>in</strong>g systemsallows <strong>the</strong> computer to tell a user that an answer to a question is wrongand to p<strong>in</strong>po<strong>in</strong>t where <strong>the</strong> th<strong>in</strong>k<strong>in</strong>g process was <strong>in</strong> error.Levels of Artificial IntelligenceResearchers have def<strong>in</strong>ed three different levels of <strong>in</strong>telligence: alpha,beta, and gamma. The alpha level of <strong>in</strong>telligence is def<strong>in</strong>ed as anonlearn<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong>telligence. At this level, past experiences do not enter <strong>in</strong>to<strong>the</strong> decision mak<strong>in</strong>g process. An example of this level of <strong>in</strong>telligence are<strong>the</strong> simple hand-held electronic chess-play<strong>in</strong>g games. This game willalways repeat its moves.Beta-level IntelligenceThe beta level of <strong>in</strong>telligence has an elementary learn<strong>in</strong>g capability.This level of <strong>in</strong>telligence can learn from its mistakes and past failures are©2001 by The Fairmont Press, Inc. All rights reserved.

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