From: rjones@colby.edu
Paolo Amoroso wrote:
> What happened to expert systems in industry within the past decade or
> so? Are they still used? Are they just another one of those "once it
> works, it's not AI" technologies? Have expert systems been abandoned,
> or replaced by something else?
>
> Some context about my question. I have been reading about, and
> experimenting with, expert systems for the past few months. I bought
> from Amazon half a dozen well know books such as "Expert Systems -
> Principles and Programming" by Giarratano, "Programming Expert Systems
> in OPS5" by Brownston et al., "Building Expert Systems" by Hayes-Roth
> et al., and a few more.
>
> Although I have a basic knowledge of computing and AI history, I did
> not closely follow recent AI research and applications. Many early
> expert systems books contain a lot of what might now be considered
> hype. But one of the books I bought, Feigenbaum's "The Rise of the
> Expert Company", published in 1989, seem to tell several stories of
> how this technology improved the bottom line of many companies.
>
> To someone not deeply familiar with AI like me, all this seems to stop
> around the AI winter. So, I always wondered what happened to expert
> systems since then. I got Feigenbaum's book from Amazon at 0.01$ plus
> shipping: is this any indication of the fate of expert systems? :)
> Are expert systems alive and well?
Depending on what you're willing to call an expert system, this article
describes one of the directions they went in the last 10 years:
Jones, R. M., Laird, J. E., Nielsen, P. E. Coulter, K. J., Kenny, P. G.,
& Koss, F., (1999). Automated intelligent pilots for combat flight
simulation. AI Magazine, 20(1), 27-41.
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