19 Jan
2025
19 Jan
'25
9:39 a.m.
Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
On 1/18/25 11:17, Paul Koning wrote:
What happened to them? They're everywhere in academic papers.
They've
become an easy way to get published. Nowadays they make up so many
bio-inspired variations of these algorithms that I think that they are
going to run out of animal names to assign to them. Most of these
publications are thrash, but there are a handful of genuine applications.
Fuzzy logic is still out there too, and in fact there are mature
applications in the field.
I usually refuse to review such papers for IEEE. Some links about the
diversity of bio-inspired stuff:
https://www.mdpi.com/2313-7673/8/3/278
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/341594685_Review_and_Classificatio…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352340920306867
carlos.
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.
...and we have decades of LLM-generated trash before they develop a
similar reputation of working.
By the way, whatever happened to discussion of "fuzzy logic" and
"genetic algorithms"?
--Chuck