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Symbolic AI & Expert Systems

The first fifty years of AI: intelligence as explicit rules, logic, and hand-built knowledge bases rather than learned weights. Expert systems ran real businesses in the 1980s before brittleness killed the boom. The ideas survive inside knowledge graphs, planners, and neuro-symbolic hybrids.

Key terms

Rule-based systemsKnowledge baseInference engineGOFAIAI winter

Where you meet it in the real world

Tax and insurance rule engines, medical coding, the knowledge-graph half of modern hybrids

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