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The Expert Systems Era

  1. 01The Expert Systems Era
  2. 02Rules as intelligence
  3. 03MYCIN and the diagnosis machine
  4. 04The expert systems boom
  5. 05The brittleness problem
  6. 06The maintenance burden
  7. 07The LISP machine collapse
  8. 08A quieter failure
  9. 09Reinforce your understanding
  10. 10Question: expert systems
  11. 11Question: brittleness
  12. 12Question: Maintenance
  13. 13Quiz: answer
  14. 14Rules have limits
  15. 15Want to go deeper?
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The expert systems boom

By the early 1980s, expert systems were a commercial industry.

Specialized computers built specifically to run AI programs sold for $100,000 and up. Fortune 500 companies were buying them. Banks used expert systems to approve loans. Manufacturers used them to configure products. Hospitals used them to diagnose.

For the first time, AI was a business. The optimism of the 1950s had returned.

Citations(2)↓
  1. 1. britannica.com
  2. 2. computerhistory.org