[pjmlp]

So we are back to Japanese Fifth Generation plan from 1980's. :)

[metadat]

For the uninitiated (like me):

The Japanese Fifth Generation Project

https://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/5thgen.htm

[linguae]

This time around we have all sorts of parallel processing capabilities in the form of GPUs. If I recall correctly, the Fifth Generation project envisioned highly parallel machines performing symbolic AI. From a hardware standpoint, those researchers were way ahead of their time.

[nxobject]

And they had a self-sustaining video game industry too... if only someone had had the wild thought of implementing perceptrons and tensor arithmetic on the same hardware!

[postepowanieadm]

and winter is coming.

[tokinonagare]

Missing some LISP but yeah it's funny how old things are new again (same story with wasm, RISC archs, etc.)

[nxobject]

Lots of GOFAI being implemented again – decision trees, goal searching and planning, agent-based strategies... just not symbolic representations, and that might be the key. I figure you might get an interesting contribution out of skimming old AI laboratory publications and seeing whether you could find a way of implementing it through a single LLM, multiple LLM agents, methods of training, etc.

[nmadden]

Indeed, modern ML has been a validation of (some of) GOFAI: https://neilmadden.blog/2024/06/30/machine-learning-and-the-...

[anthk]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constraint_satisfaction_prob...

[thelastparadise]

Watson did it too, a while back.