expert systems

also referred to as: expert system

3 statements across 3 episodes · 1 bullish · 2 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jul 15, 2017 by Frank Chen · across every show →

Everything said about expert systems, oldest first

Jul 15, 2017 negative
Insight
Frank Chen: Rule-based expert systems fail to scale across domain boundaries
“Building one expert system didn't really give you a leg up in building the next expert system. You'd still have to go through this very long process of finding an expert, understanding what they do, programming the set of rules, and you didn't get a lot of lev…”
Frank Chen Jul 15, 2017 ▶ 20:23 AI, Deep Learning, and Machine Learning: A Primer
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Assertion Contradicted
Andreessen: Expert software systems consistently outperform human doctors in medical diagnoses
“I can tell you, and in all the studies that have been done in the last, like, 20 years, the expert systems make better diagnoses than human doctors.”
Marc Andreessen Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 14:05 a16z Podcast | Tech's Biggest Ideas and How They Take Hold -- With Marc Andreessen and Dan Siroker
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Chen: 1990s expert systems failed due to insufficient hardware compute
“Keep in mind what computational power was back then. We didn't have a lot of memory. We didn't have a lot of disk. We didn't have a lot of CPU cycles. And so the rate at which we could do these calculations and the amount of storage we had, like, it just never…”
Frank Chen Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 4:58 a16z Podcast | The Dream of AI Is Alive in Go
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