AI AND E-COMMERCE

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Conventional data processing is concerned with inputting and processing data in the form of facts and figures in order to produce operational or management information.Artificial intelligence,on the other hand, is based on knowledge.A widely accepted definition of artificial intelligence is based on a test devised by Alan Turing in 1950.

Suppose there are two identical terminals in a one connected to a computer,and the other operated remotely by a person.If someone using the two terminals is unable to tell which is connected to the computer and which is operated by the person, the computer can be credited with intelligence.

Following on from this idea we could say that artificial intelligence is the science of making machine perform tasks that would require intelligence if done by people.Artificial intelligence covers such fields as expert systems,problem solving,robot control, intelligence database querying and pattern recognition.Pattern recognition includes speech comprehension and synthesis,image processing and robot vision.Getting a computer to communicate in natural language is yet another field of research.One aspect of artificially intelligent computers is that they should be capable of learning and therefore improving their performance at a given task.Computer have been successfully trained,for example-to recognize (with as much accuracy as a human being) a face as either male or female, and to be able to recognize an underground train station as being crowded or not.

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE (E-COMMERCE)

E-commerce is broadly defined as the use of telecommunication or wide area networking to carry out financial transactions.With the emergence of internet and inexpensive personal computers,E-commerce has grown widely now a days.Almost infinite variety of goods and services is available on the internet.You can bid for any kinds of work,purchase equipment and materials, book your holiday, hire car, theatre tickets and restaurant meal, buy anything from groceries to a car.You can buy or sell stocks and shares on-line, do your banking, and apply for a job.