Roger prompted with a paper he wrote that includes history. I was thinking of 'decision support systems', which were much more (but not completely) predictable than "AI" generally. At least you have a single domain to narrow in on. But as Dr Bob points out, diagnosis without a human being involved proved to be quite dicey. It also can lead to tunnel vision and overlooking context. Pretty good for stopping medicine interactions, but anything else? Not sure.
As I said to Roger, my prof in grad school, Vern Gerlach, was big on these things working on US Air Force projects, mostly flight training, when I was in Arizona. Jan At 01:14 PM 12/02/2016, Frank O'Connor you wrote: >Ummm Heuristics maybe? > > >There were a number of efforts in that area in the late 70âs and early >80âs. > >I remember one offering, called Eurisko from memory, that showed a lot of >promise but itâs so long ago (!!!!) and I failed to keep up with >developments in that field. > >Scientific American was real keen on it for a while. > >Just my 2 cents worth > >--- >> On 12 Feb 2016, at 11:32 AM, JanW <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> At 11:20 AM 12/02/2016, Jim Birch wrote: >> >>> It is difficult by design. >> >> Do any linkers remember back in the 70s that there was a competition between >> AI research and another similar angle? I'm at a loss what it was, but it was >> the more reasonable development in that conceptual area. It was before >> machine learning as a serious topic, too. Help! >> >> Jan >> >> >> I write books. http://janwhitaker.com/?page_id=8 >> >> Melbourne, Victoria, Australia >> [email protected] >> Twitter: <https://twitter.com/JL_Whitaker>JL_Whitaker >> Blog: www.janwhitaker.com >> >> Sooner or later, I hate to break it to you, you're gonna die, so how do you >> fill in the space between here and there? It's yours. Seize your space. >> ~Margaret Atwood, writer >> >> _ __________________ _ >> _______________________________________________ >> Link mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link I write books. http://janwhitaker.com/?page_id=8 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia [email protected] Twitter: <https://twitter.com/JL_Whitaker>JL_Whitaker Blog: www.janwhitaker.com Sooner or later, I hate to break it to you, you're gonna die, so how do you fill in the space between here and there? It's yours. Seize your space. ~Margaret Atwood, writer _ __________________ _ _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
