Have you heard of expert systems? Probably not. That was the "AI" that was gonna change humanity that billions were being poured into in the 80s. The same news orgs hype stuff up during "AI summers" without even looking into their archives to see what they wrote decades ago.

@timnitGebru "During the years before the middle of the 1970s, the expectations of what expert systems can accomplish in many fields tended to be extremely optimistic. At the beginning of these early studies, researchers were hoping to develop entirely automatic (i.e., completely computerized) expert systems. The expectations of people of what computers can do were frequently too idealistic."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expert_system

Sounds like a dispatch from the future

Expert system - Wikipedia

@Binks @timnitGebru Yes, this is a really funny coincidence: I always quote this at the start of my Deep Learning lecture series to align (hrhr) the students on what to expect from "AI".

That was Saturday.

Next week they'll learn about AI winters and how the stochastic parrot paper may very well once be seen as the first harbinger turning *this* AI summer into AI fall[*] turning into the next AI winter.

[*] I think we're slowly approaching September, actually.

@Binks @timnitGebru

I save a picture of this article on expert systems from 1982:

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