Artificial Intelligence / Unit 5 AI 0237 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Knowledge Bottleneck
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The idea
Rule systems scaled into expert systems and stalled on authorship: every exception needs a writer, every vocabulary must stay consistent, and the world keeps minting exceptions.
In practice
The 1980s boom built thousand-rule systems; maintenance grew with the square of ambition, and the bust followed.
Where people slip
Inference was never the hard problem — knowledge acquisition was, and that diagnosis sets up everything after.
Your place on the trail
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