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Re:The Fifth Generation Project in Japan by AlbertCory on Thursday October 17, 2024 @09:04PM (#41875445)
You might well be 100% right. I'd like to see the Japanese succeed, actually.

However, it was simply not possible for anyone to succeed at AI in the early 80's. It took some Nobel-prize-winning software, a change of approach, and a massive increase in compute power to finally break through.

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Re:The Fifth Generation Project in Japan by llm_trw on Thursday October 17, 2024 @09:09PM (#41875479)
The only thing we needed was the compute. Everything else had been discovered by the 80s.
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Re:The Fifth Generation Project in Japan by philipkglass on Friday October 18, 2024 @05:28PM (#41883653)
I think that we also needed a much larger training corpus than was available in the 1980s. Back then the largest textual data sets were orders of magnitude smaller.
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Re:The Fifth Generation Project in Japan by adastra22 on Thursday October 17, 2024 @09:18PM (#41875519)
Using neural nets. The approach taken towards AI in the 80’s was much less compute intensive.
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Re:The Fifth Generation Project in Japan by numpad0 on Thursday October 17, 2024 @09:26PM (#41875546)
Neural nets with hidden layers is literally older than the Apollo 11 landing. That doesn't make sense but it is.
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Re:The Fifth Generation Project in Japan by adastra22 on Thursday October 17, 2024 @09:46PM (#41875658)
Read TFA. The Fifth Generation Project involved expert systems & prolog, not neural nets.
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