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
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…”
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Jan 2, 2019 negative
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…”