brittleness (expert system)

Terms from Artificial Intelligence: humans at the heart of algorithms

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Expert systems are often very domain specific and therefore may fail dramatically when presented with information even marginally outside that domain, a phenomenin known as brittleness.

Used in Chap. 18: page 297