[sm001]

In the 1990's, an AI Corp developer (a woman friend of mine) completely automated the management of a large IBM mainframe using old fashioned AI. The computer worked in complete darkness. She called it "lights out computing".

[account-5]

What's "old fashioned AI"?

[andreyk]

This (presumably) refers to "Good ol' Fashioned AI" aka Symbolic AI (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolic_artificial_intelligen...) . It's a bit of an over-simplification to say it's a bunch of if statements, but it does involve encoding a bunch of rules/symbols by humans (as opposed to learning from data). It's a largely dead paradigm, though aspects of it are still found in various modern approaches (eg task and motion planning, knowledge bases, etc.) often in combination with learning approaches.

[laerus]

a bunch of "if" statements?