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> GOFAI was never more than a rules engine.

GOFAI "aged out" of the AI label and became: compilers, databases, search algorithms, planning algorithms, programming languages, theorem proving, a million things that are still commonly used in NLP/CV/robotics, comp arch, etc. Aka, most of what makes computers actually useful.

If something's over 30 years old and is still called AI, that's just shorthand for saying it's a failed idea that in the best case hasn't had its moment yet.

> If-then statements.

99.999% of the software I use is just if-then statements.

(Also, this is like saying that deep learning is Linear Algebra.)



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