AIS has been used in the Guardian system to monitor patients in a surgical intensive-care unit (SICU). Guardian continually monitors patient data in quantities beyond the cognitive abilities of humans to process. It reasons about the causes of abnormal flucuations, and is capable of reporting a diagram of its reasoning, the conclusion of the reasoning, and (hopefully) a recommendation to the staff. Upon confirmation by the staff, it may then execute some of its recommendations.
There are several properties that AIS must have for Guardian to work. AIS must provide continuous operation to monitor patients for the duration of their stay in SICU. AIS must provide functional maximum latencies to ensure reasoning is done with recent information, and, that results are passed on to the staff in a timely manner. Given the potentially life-or-death nature of Guardian's reasoning, AIS also must provide explanations of its reasoning.
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