PRC-3 · Chapter 5 · Question 59 of 74
A medical diagnostics program asks a doctor a series of symptom questions and then applies a vast database of programmed medical rules to suggest a diagnosis, acting like a human specialist. What is this system?
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Correct answer: A) Expert System (ES)
Explanation
An Expert System is a branch of AI that uses a knowledge base and inference rules to simulate the judgment and decision-making behavior of a human expert.
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