expert system

noun

: computer software that attempts to mimic the reasoning of a human specialist

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This was a major motivator of expert systems in the 1990s. Jim Euchner, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2024 Even in the early 1990s when colleagues and I were working for early-stage expert systems software companies, the notion that machines could mimic human intelligence was an audacious one. Douglas B. Laney, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024

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First Known Use

1977, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of expert system was in 1977

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“Expert system.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/expert%20system. Accessed 26 Jan. 2025.

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