Introducing Artificial Intelligence (Henry Brighton and Howard Selina) / quote 20 of 68

Heuristics: good enough approximations

These tactical rules of thumb are called heuristics and crop up in AI systems everywhere. Heuristics don’t guarantee success or correctness, but offer a good approximation. Heuristics are used when more exhaustive and precise methods are intractable.

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