19 Jan
2025
19 Jan
'25
4:33 a.m.
On 18/01/2025 19:17, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
Expert systems have always been considered a kind of
AI system. What
makes them somewhat different is that they actually have a
decades-long track record of working. I remember learning these back
in 1976, from visiting prof. Donald Mickie at the University of
Illinois. We used it to build a chess endgame machine.
paul
I'd say yes and no to that. But then I don't consider generative AI to
be anything to do with actual Artificial Intelligence either. I wrote
about this stuff in the 1990s and called these things Simulated
Intelligence, a term which never took off but which I stand by to this day!
Around 1981 I wrote what would now be called chatbot in 6502 (on an OSI
500 board - obligatory old computer content) that was placed in our
local library for the public to have a go on. Because most people hadn't
seen a computer, never mind interacted with one, it seemed intelligent
to them. (Think Eliza in 16K - it really wasn't that smart).
I'm not sure who started calling this generative stuff "AI" but it was
great marketing!