Kat Marchán 🐈 on Nostr: One of the hot technologies preceding one of the several “AI Winters” we’ve ...
One of the hot technologies preceding one of the several “AI Winters” we’ve seen since software was even a thing was called Expert Systems. And they were hot for well over a decade!
…but as the hype started cooling and people looked at the cost/benefit analysis and the real capabilities of such a system in the long term, the whole house of cards came crashing down. Below is the summary the Wikipedia page gives on why they failed. Look familiar?
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