[ih] History of AI and Internet

[John Levine]

It appears that Brian E Carpenter via Internet-history <brian.e.carpenter at gmail.com> said:
>On 23-Jun-26 17:25, william yeager wrote:
>> 
>>> On Jun 22, 2026, at 7:54 PM, Brian E Carpenter via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org
><mailto:internet-history at elists.isoc.org>> wrote:
>>>
>>> but expert systems were not real AI
>> 
>> Rubbish ! (Steven Hawking’s favorite denial). They WERE real AI at the time they existed. 
>
>Fair enough, but all the expert systems I saw were basically rules created by human experts.

Well, yeah, that was how people did AI when I was in school in the 1970s. Try to
come up with more or less realistic models of the way people think.

I think everyone was surprised when Google fed the parallel English and French
texts of the Canadian Hansard into a machine learning system, and got a much
better translator than any of the existing ones that were built with explicit
language models. Now most AI is variations of dump in a lot of data and let the
algorithms turn it into whatever model they get, but that's a huge change in
mindset from AI 50 years ago.

R's,
John