[ih] History of AI and Internet

[D Waitzman]

Jack Haverty <jack at 3kitty.org <mailto:jack at 3kitty.org>> wrote:
> That started the "Automated Network Management" (ANM) project as a new research task at BBN

I worked on ANM from 1989 to 1997, though it had been renamed Advanced Network Management (still ANM) before I started.  I was told that the team realized that it was not viable to be 'Automated'.  The only remnant of AI was that the UI was written in Lisp (Common Lisp, with Flavors IIRC).



I took Professor Marvin Minsky's Society of Minds class (6.868) at MIT in 1992. Early this year, in one of my first attempts at using Gemini "deep research", I asked it what Professor Marvin Minsky would have thought about today's AI systems.  Its answer was the typical on-the-surface well-written piece you'd expect but I did not do an in-depth analysis.  I suspect that Minsky would be strongly on the side of "today's AI is not real AGI".


And regarding rule-based systems and the Internet -- how many of you worked on DEC VAXen whose final configuration was done by DEC's R-1 expert system?  (See https://cdn.aaai.org/AAAI/1980/AAAI80-076.pdf)


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David Waitzman