[LINK] Talking about AI

[JanW]

Roger prompted with a paper he wrote that includes history. I was thinking of 'decision support systems', which were much more (but not completely) predictable than "AI" generally. At least you have a single domain to narrow in on. But as Dr Bob points out, diagnosis without a human being involved proved to be quite dicey. It also can lead to tunnel vision and overlooking context. Pretty good for stopping medicine interactions, but anything else? Not sure.

As I said to Roger, my prof in grad school, Vern Gerlach, was big on these things working on US Air Force projects, mostly flight training, when I was in Arizona.

Jan

At 01:14 PM 12/02/2016, Frank O'Connor you wrote:

>Ummm 
 Heuristics maybe?
>
>
>There were a number of efforts in that area in the late 70’s and early 80’s.
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>I remember one offering, called Eurisko from memory, that showed a lot of promise 
 but it’s so long ago (!!!!) and I failed to  keep up with developments in that field.
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>Scientific American was real keen on it for a while.
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>Just my 2 cents worth 

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>> On 12 Feb 2016, at 11:32 AM, JanW <jwhit at internode.on.net> wrote:
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>> At 11:20 AM 12/02/2016, Jim Birch wrote:
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>>> It is difficult by design. 
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>> Do any linkers remember back in the 70s that there was a competition between AI research and another similar angle? I'm at a loss what it was, but it was the more reasonable development in that conceptual area. It was before machine learning as a serious topic, too. Help!
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