Whatever happened to "expert systems" from the 80's, 90's? They were supposedly going to be able to solve this exact problem — medical diagnosis.
Perhaps this was the camp of AI that thought you could just build a decision tree (top down) ... that appears to have failed?
Instead the bottom-up (neural networked) AI seems to be winning out.
I wonder though if a ChatGPT would have been possible in 1985 with no rich internet to feed it data. I wonder if it would have been possible with even 2000 internet?
Perhaps this was the camp of AI that thought you could just build a decision tree (top down) ... that appears to have failed?
Instead the bottom-up (neural networked) AI seems to be winning out.
I wonder though if a ChatGPT would have been possible in 1985 with no rich internet to feed it data. I wonder if it would have been possible with even 2000 internet?