Learn — from rules to data
How AI moved from hand-written rules to learning from data: expert systems, statistics, neural networks and the AlexNet breakthrough.
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The ideas to retain
1. The age of rules: when intelligence was written by hand
The first symbolic systems
Early AI programs were built around a powerful intuition: if reasoning can be expressed as a sequence of formal steps, perhaps we only need to represent those steps and let the machine…
Expert systems: the mature symbolic paradigm
This approach reached its most solid form in expert systems. Rather than aiming for general intelligence, they tried to capture knowledge in a narrow domain through rules, facts and…
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