The Fifth Generation: Artificial Intelligence and Japan’s Computer Challenge to the World by Edward A. Feigenbaum (PDF)

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Analyzes the potential and the consequences for the United States of Japan’s all-out effort to produce the Fifth Generation of computers within ten years

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⭐History repeats itself. Take if from an old person who was there at the time: SAIL, Intellicorp, Teknowledge, pre-dotcom Stanford/Palo Alto. Al the heroics you hear around ML and AI in the second decade of the 20th century are eerily similar. Even identical in some cases. Only now it’s China that will eat our AI lunch, not Japan. AI seems to be a projection-screen for economic and technological anxiety.AI in the ’80s brought us a lot of cool stuff, but in no way lived up to the biggest hype. And none of the dystopian Skynet fantasies came to pass. I think it’s a decent bet they won’t this time, either — Elon Musk’s and Stephen Hawking’s prognostications notwithstanding.

⭐I was reading “The Age of Intelligent Machines” by Raymond Kurzweil and was intrigued by the section on expert systems. He included an article by Edward A. Feigenbaum, one of the early names in the development of expert systems.I was interested enough to see if Feigenbaum had written any books. What better place to get the answer but Amazon.com?One of the books written by Feigenbaum was this one, “The Fifth Generation: Artificial Intelligence and Japan’s Computer Challenge to the World”.Now, I had heard about the Fifth Generation computer project back in the 1980’s. But, I never heard what became of it.A quick search on the internet showed that it died. For example, this quote from Wikipedia: “By any measure the project was an abject failure.”My first reaction was disbelief.I did more research on the internet to make sure other opinions agreed. They did.But I was still intrigued by the Fifth Generation computer project and expert systems. So, I bought the book from one of the Amazon Used and New sellers. I figured I might enjoy the story and learn something about expert systems at the same time. The price was right, too.The book reads like a novel. The book was written before the project got into trouble so you get to see the characters while they still had big dreams.The story has all the qualities of a good historical non-fiction book. It has human interest. It takes place in a foreign country, much different than we in the U.S. are accustomed to. Regardless of success or failure, the participants knew their ambitious undertaking would make history. Never before had a project of such magnitude been attempted.The book was written so that non-technical types would buy it and read it without getting discouraged. Yet, it was technical enough that someone with a technical background in computers, like myself (I’m a programmer), could enjoy it as both reading for pleasure and reading to gain additional knowledge (about expert systems, artificial intelligence, and Japan’s MITI).Of course, if you’re really serious about expert systems, there are better books. For example, “Expert Systems: Principles and Programming, Fourth Edition : Principles and Programming”.

⭐Even when Prof. Feigenbaum was awarded The Turing Ward.there had not been any mention of The Fifth Generation Project outlined in this book.It is interesting to note, that Feigenbaum work om expert systems had quite a few local amazing successes. They were local. because they could be generalized or reproduced. His “Knowledge Engineering” methodology was faulty.In 2017, Erik Schmidt pronounced that China began its AI National Project and phrased a wake-up call for the U.S. almost as a copy paste of Feigenbaum’s call. Interesting indeed.

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