Good for you. Its certainly something worth keeping an eye on. I’ve lost touch.
Back in the early 90s I was hanging on Usenet in the nuclear energy groups. I made friends with John McCarthy of Stanford, who was a very pro-nuke advocate. McCarthy of course was the inventor of AI, or at least as it existed then. He did get me to buy a LISP compiler. Interesting and weird. Back then the idea was to create rule-based “expert systems”. That whole thing fizzled out. Getting the mind of an “expert” into an app was much harder than anybody thought.
“Back then the idea was to create rule-based “expert systems”. That whole thing fizzled out. Getting the mind of an “expert” into an app was much harder than anybody thought.”
Yep, expert systems were the entire focus then and the people at the forefront of the research had high expectations (both for technological progress in the area and for personal fame). Neither happened at the time at least locally.
I played a little with LISP also.
I do recall LISP or lisp being interpreter based but on reading Wikipedia now seems it had various implementations of either interpretive or compiled types and a clever runtime combination of the two. Now I vaguely remember something like that. 40 years is a long time for me to remember details.