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Expert systems are used widely in commercial and industrial settings, including medicine, finance, manufacturing, and sales.By widely distributing human expertise through expert systems, businesses and enterprises can realize benefits in consistency, accuracy, and reliability in problem-solving activities.

An expert system is an AI software that uses knowledge stored in a knowledge base to solve problems that would usually require a human expert thus preserving a human expert’s knowledge in its knowledge base. They can advise users as well as provide explanations to them about how they reached a particular conclusion or advice.

It is widely used in many areas such as medical diagnosis, accounting, coding, games etc.

Examples: There are many examples of expert system. Some of them are given below:

  • MYCIN: One of the earliest expert systems based on backward chaining. It can identify various bacteria that can cause severe infections and can also recommend drugs based on the person’s weight.
  • DENDRAL: It was an artificial intelligence based expert system used for chemical analysis. It used a substance’s spectrographic data to predict it’s molecular structure.
  • R1/XCON: It could select specific software to generate a computer system wished by the user.
  • PXDES: It could easily determine the type and the degree of lung cancer in a patient based on the data.
  • CaDet: It is a clinical support system that could identify cancer in its early stages in patients.
  • DXplain: It was also a clinical support system that could suggest a variety of diseases based on the findings of the doctor.
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