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by laerus 1467 days ago
a bunch of "if" statements?
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Having seen the code for a couple of "intelligent assistant" features: Yeah, basically a bunch of "if" statements. (The IA for the Apple Newton was a ton of special cases. It was clever, but certainly not 'intelligent').

Thus, the technology of AI has improved from a sea of spaghetti code that no human can understand, to a bunch of neural net weights that no human can understand. I love the march of progress. :-)

I believe this refers to decision trees that, at the time were referred to as “Expert systems”, which were considered a type of AI.
Maybe more like prolog?