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| Access |
Access the pieces of information we need to answer
our immediate questions from vast databases?.
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| Advise |
Advise our at-home chronic care patients on their
own non-emergency care, so as to relieve our nursing
staff from this work. Also to decide from information
provided by patients and from sensor readings if a remote
patient is in an emergency situation?
Advise consumers which Web shopping sites have the
best buys for them today?
Advise our company how to select from amongst the
many health insurance programs on offer the best few
to offer to our employees this year?
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| Analyze |
Analyze all the data in these large databases to look
for useful patterns of information (i.e., data mine
it)?
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| Assist |
Assist each of my plant operators to set priorities
in difficult situations, when a lot of things are happening
at once, and to avoid overwhelming or panicking them.
Of course, we need each operator to be treated individually,
so they'll accept the assistance?
Assist our team to effectively collaborate when browsing
the Web in gathering market intelligence on our comptetitors?
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| Auction |
Auction items so that all the rules are applied in
the millions of transactions that take place on our
Web site?
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| Bid |
Bid for me at Web auctions?
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| Broker |
Broker my share transactions on my behalf once the
stock exchange hours are extended?
Broker the purchase of electric power from generating
companies in an unregulated market?
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| Classify |
Classify all the hits I get from a Web search using
any of the commercial search engines, so I can see them
organized in a few groups?
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| Categorize |
Categorize our customers so our service agents can
devote appropriate amounts of attention to individual
customers?
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| Compare |
Compare a current legal case with all possible precedents?
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| Control |
Control our work flow so that details aren't overlooked,
or too much or too little effort go into different tasks?
Control a chemical process optimally under a wide
range of conditions?
Control the behavior of game characters so they behave
more like humans, and make the game more unpredictable
and enjoyable to play?
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| Coordinate |
Coordinate activities and documents for a project
team drawn from multiple companies and distributed across
the globe, so they are always working with the latest
revisions and updates?
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| Data mine |
Data mine our point-of-sale (POS) data to better understand
the factors driving our daily sales levels, and to better
predict those sales levels, and allow us to calculate
the resources we need to make available to support them?
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| Design |
Design a road system using a CAD/CAM software package
so no expensive errors or code violations are built
in?
Design and redesign mechanical components that will
most efficiently handle the stresses expected in operation?
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| Detect |
Detect intrusion into our computer network by unauthorized
employees or outsiders?
Detect signs that major failures may be about to happen
in our chemical plant?
Detect inside trading more effectively and earlier?
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| Diagnose |
Diagnose faults in a remotely operating piece of equipment
such as a stand-by power generator, so a maintenance
person will be able to fix it faster?
Diagnose diseases so that harder cases may be referred
to specialists more quickly?
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| Evaluate |
Evaluate the potential effects of planned changes
to our factor layout and advise us of them?
Evalute and advise on the best alternative courses
of action in an emergency, and re-evaluate them as the
emergency proceeds?
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| Explain |
Explain why another automated system made the decision
it did?
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| Filter |
Filter the enormous amount of e-mail I receive so
I only have to answer the important stuff?
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| Guide |
Guide efficient placement of acoutic sensors to detect
enemy movement instead of land mines to avoid the danger
of land mines to non-combatants?
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| Handle |
Handle the more mundane problems in our information
flows, and make sure the more important ones are passed
on to humans to handle?
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| Help |
Help sales engineers answer technical questions from
our customers better, while at the customers' plants?
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| Invent |
Invent a new analog electric circuit to do a specified
job?
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| Learn |
Learn from the old generation of mechanics who are
rapidly retiring from the company and had such wonderful
general knowledge, not matched by today's specialists?
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| Manage |
Manage distributing new information that the company
has received to the people who need it now?
Manage computer networks because of shortage of humans
trained to do this?
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| Mediate |
Mediate between parties by providing them with past
decisions to similar cases that human expert mediators
provided, with slight adjustments for the current situation?
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| Monitor |
Monitor movements in currency exchange rates, and
initiate changes in our position when human would react
too slowly?
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| Negotiate |
Negotiate the thousands of requests for licenses for
minor uses of copyrighted material that we receive annually?
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| Optimize |
Optimize a structural design using engineers' rules
of thumb, as well as math modeling to produce a better
design in less time?
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| Organize |
Organize the schedule for our large sports tournaments
so that all the matches are scheduled on the fields
available to us subject to travel, cost, and other constraints?
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| Plan |
Plan the steps we need to take to produce each batch
of chemicals with their different specifications?
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| Predict |
Predict our sales level tomorrow so we can decide
how many servers to bring into each of the hundreds
of our outlets, so our customers don't have to wait
for service, but we don't have idle servers?
Predict more accurately if non-prime consumers can
be extended credit cards?
Predict the toxicology of chemicals?
Predict failure and abnormal operation of major mechanical
and electrical equipment?
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| Process |
Process requests for credit card transaction approvals
to reduce fraud, but not needlessly embarrass our customers?
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| Rank |
Rank our options for dealing with a situation?
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| Represent |
Represent me in bidding on e-Bay?
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| Research |
Research our customers' questions about our products
that they put to us so we can get quick, accurate, and
useful answers to them?
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| Route, acknowledge, queue, and generate
reports |
For the ever growing volume of e-mail sent to us by
our customers, so we can respond promptly?
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| Schedule |
Schedule all the maintenance activities we must perform
tomorrow, in the next six months, and for the next ten
years, depending on different equipment availability
plans?
Schedule our best customer's order placed last night
into our plant's production schedule so we satisfy the
customers, but not at any cost?
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| Search |
Search for technologies that we might wish to license
in to our company from a case base of licensable technology
available on the Web?
Search for the perfect house for our clients? Search for
optimum solutions in our supply-chain management system?
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| Teach |
Teach illiterate adults to read proficiently in the
privacy of their own homes?
Teach naval officers to command an AEGIS cruiser during
tactical situations?
Teach our engineers to expertly use CAD/CAM software
faster?
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| Test |
Test the competency of our engineers in using our
CAD/CAM software?
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| Warn |
Warn us of movements in stock market price and volume
changes overnight in foreign markets so we can react?
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