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For us old timers this is the third AI boom (including two "A.I. winters" in between). In the 1980s the boom was experts systems and logic inference supercompu
by peter303 11y ago
For us old timers this is the third AI boom (including two "A.I. winters" in between). In the 1980s the boom was experts systems and logic inference supercomputers. Many computer science departments were decimated then.
- rdtsc 11y ago> In the 1980s the boom was experts systems and logic inference supercomputers. Would you consider any current system or approaches are a continuation of that or did that end up a dead branch in the AI evolution so to speak. I can perhaps think of IBM's Watson as sort of continuing in that legacy.
- hiddencost 11y agoThis "third wave" isn't really AI, it's more "Machine Learning". Watson's question answering service is basically an ensemble of statistical methods, like everything else these days.
- klipt 11y agoAs I understand it the older expert systems tried to use rigid true/false rules. Modern systems use probabilistic models which are much more flexible.