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by Metricon 564 days ago
To be clear, my amusement isn't that I find this technique to not be useful for the purpose it was created, but that 40 years later, we find ourselves in pursuit for the advancement of AI to be somewhat back where we already were; albeit, in a more semi-automated fashion as someone still has to create the underlying rule-set.

I do feel that the introduction of generative neural network models in both natural language and multi-media creation has been a tremendous boon for the advancement of AI, it just amuses me to see that which was old is new again.

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Same with symbolic systems!
Seems likely that we were on the right track, it just took 40 years for computers to get good enough.