[linguae]

Ironically, once upon a time Prolog and logic programming in general were part of the cutting-edge of AI. There's quite a fascinating history of Japan's fifth-generation computing efforts in the 1980s when Japan focused on logic programming and massively parallel computing. My former manager, who is from Japan, earned his PhD in the 1990s in a topic related to constraint logic programming.

[copx]

I remember when so-called "expert systems" written in Prolog or LISP were supposed to replace doctors. Then came the (first) AI winter after people realized how unrealistic that was.

Nowadays LLMs are supposed to replace doctors.. and that makes even less sense given that LLMs are error-prone by design. They will hallucinate, you cannot fix that because of their probabilistic nature, yet all the money in the world is thrown at people who preach LLMs will eventually be able to do every human job.

The second AI winter cannot come soon enough.

[anthk]

The LLM collapse will yield the classical AI reborn with environments like Common Lisp.

[fc417fc802]

Even now NEC makes some cool massively parallel chips and accelerators that I wish were more mainstream because they look like they'd be fun to play with.