Expert Systems: A Technology Before Its Time 1 (original) (raw)

The commercial rollout of expert systems has not been what we envisioned back in 1980, but things are not as bad as they seem. True, investors lost big money in expert systems start-up companies. And, yes, many people's careers, both AI research folk and corporate technologists, took a serious detour. And the trade press has indeed used the words "another AI" as a metaphor to describe other overly-hyped new technologies. Yet, people are still selling, using and benefiting from commercial applications, including new types of applications we hadn't imagined. The current press coverage is positive and relatively well-informed. 2 Furthermore, as standard-issue PC's become more powerful and more networked, the potential platform for knowledge-enabled applications, which once required high-end workstations and avant-garde systems integration, is mushrooming. And the mystery and magic of AI's mind-machine dream is still quite alive in stubborn old-timers and, more...

A Survey of Expert System Projects

2009

A pioneer in commercializing expert system technolo gy, Teknowledge released two so-called "expert system shells" in mid-1984. It soon became pparent that product customers were using these tools in ways that differed from what the dev elopers envisioned. Even internal to Teknowledge, there was considerably controversy ove r the value of these tools. The debate centered on the tradeoffs between the leverage they provided for certain portions of the system development task and the restrictions they imposed n the ways knowledge could be represented.

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Interacting with expert systems

Proceedings of the first international conference on Industrial and engineering applications of artificial intelligence and expert systems - IEA/AIE '88, 1988