Global AI Map
28m41sHISTORY / 1980
Expert systems in industry
Expert-system projects applied rules and domain knowledge to practical tasks such as configuring computer systems. This work moved knowledge-based AI beyond laboratory demonstrations.
What happened next
These systems could be useful within a defined domain. Maintaining the rules, handling exceptions and acquiring knowledge became major engineering costs. Later AI systems continued to face related problems of scope and maintenance.
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29m25sThe Computer Chronicles - Artificial Intelligence (1985)
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