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The Rise and Fall of Symbolic AI
The Second World War saw massive scientific contributions and technological advancements. Innovations such as radar technology, the mass production of penicillin, and the jet engine were all a by-product of the war. More importantly, the first electronic computer (Colossus) was also developed to decipher encrypted Nazi communications during the war. After the war, the desire to achieve machine intelligence continued to grow.
As humans, we wanted to enable computers with human-like abilities. The primary motivation behind Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems has always been to allow computers to mimic our behavior, to enable machines to think like us and act like us, to be like us. Over the years, this motivation ...
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