Ask HN: Why are some innovations from previous AI cycles forgotten about?
Take for example Expert Systems (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expert_system) which are AI systems designed to make logical inferences. They had systems that could do accurate logical inferences in the 1970s, and even designed a VAX chip (SID) and made medical diagnosises (MYCIN) [apparently] to a level at or above many physicians.Why are innovations like these (another example being genetic...