An AI (artificial intelligence) program that uses a knowledge base of human expertise for problem solving. Expert systems were the AI methodology prior to the neural networks of today, which are much ...

We’ll be honest. If you had told us a few decades ago we’d teach computers to do what we want, it would work some of the time, and you wouldn’t really be able to explain or predict exactly what it was ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Gil Press writes about technology, entrepreneurs and innovation. This article is more than 3 years old. In the early 1960s, ...