Fifth Generation was the weirdest. Prolog was the way to true AI. Except no sane human can write prologs longer than one page. Seemed like dead end at the time.
In 1970's was one AI success story. Finnish language spell checker was considered Hard AI problem and I saw Fred Karlsson on Xerox Lisp machine demo in Stockholm. Fred realized however soon that all you need is hard work and fixed rule-based state machine written in C.
Fifth Generation was the weirdest. Prolog was the way to true AI. Except no sane human can write prologs longer than one page. Seemed like dead end at the time.
In 1970's was one AI success story. Finnish language spell checker was considered Hard AI problem and I saw Fred Karlsson on Xerox Lisp machine demo in Stockholm. Fred realized however soon that all you need is hard work and fixed rule-based state machine written in C.