Grok is extremely biased.
Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Thursday, June 25, 2026, 1:42 PM, Steve Thompson <[email protected]> wrote: In the late 1980s, IBM had KT (Knowledge tool), ESE (Expert System Environment) if I remember the name correctly, and in the 1990s there was IBM Prolog (for VM) and IBM Prolog for 370, which ran under MVS/XA and ESA and VM. Then there was The Integrated Reasoning Shell (TIRS) that was running under XA and ESA, and possibly under OS/2. I was told that IBM sold off TIRS, and then killed Prolog around 2000(?). I know positively that ESE was being used in Germany, by GAD (an abbreviation for a very long German company name -- and I have forgotten the full name) in determining credit worthiness -- I think they were a service provider to banks. I know all the above because I had been involved in doing the sub system interfaces for Prolog and TIRS so they could work with CICS, IMS, TSO, etc. And I got involved in ESE when it was getting PIC4s... It became a SEV1 critsit and I figured it out just before I was to get on a plane and go to Germany. And there is an SMF record, I no longer remember the number, that I authored to allow for cross-mem charge back from Prolog and TIRS. IBM decided to go a different route. So it got orphaned. I actually had to contact people in IBM to get it named correctly... Thanks to Cheryl Watson and a discussion we had about it. What I am getting at is AI in what we might think of as an elementary state has been around for quite a while and the AI we see today is, to me, an explosion of AI capability and usage. Please note something I was told at Deloitte -- when using an AI system, beware of biases. I find them all the time in the LLMs being used online when I am doing research. Automated operations was arguably an AI system, rudimentary, but one just the same when I compare to KT and ESE. Oh, and I was just a contractor at IBM STL (now SVL) in the early 1990s. Steve Thompson On 6/22/2026 12:53 PM, Scott Guynes wrote: > Is anyone using AI on the mainframe? If so, what are you using and what are > some examples of things you're using it for? > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
