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An example of intelligent action

I have to go shopping in Cardiff. I need to get the following:

What present do I get my friend?

I know he likes modern Jazz. I know Herbie Hancock has new CD out. I decide to get that for him.

What wine do I get?

I am cooking beef with black bean source tonight so a good red wine would be in order. A French Burgundy would be nice.

What reasoning has gone on so far?

Quite a lot

Where to buy?

There are many possibilities:

What reasoning has gone on now?

How could a computer achieve this?

NOTE: This would be a very difficult task.

  1. Capture knowledge -- Encode knowledge in a ``language''. At least two forms of knowledge. Knowledge encoding is a difficult task. We will see this later in the course.
  2. Search knowledge for solution. Could do this by:

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