edwin@fornax (06/01/91)
I am posing this news message for a Computer Science student at SFU, if there is any reply to this topic, please forward the message to the following e-mail address: internet : c411953@csil.cs.sfu.ca OR _craig@csil.cs.sfu.ca bitnet : c411953%csil.cs.sfu.ca@relay.cdnnet.ca OR _craig%csil.cs.sfu.ca@relay.cdnnet.ca --Thanks. ==============================Message begins here========================= How far can expert systems go?? or, What, potentially, can they accomplish?? Will they ever replace human experts?? Will they ever be trusted?? I would like anyone to e-mail me (or post) any references to articles, books, journals, etc. that might try to answer the above questions. I would also welcome anyone e-mailing me with their opinions.... Another student and I have to do a discussion, in class, on this topic and we have found very little info so far. Thanks, Craig. ============================Message ends here=============================
kingsley@hpwrce.HP.COM (Kingsley Morse) (06/04/91)
IMHO expert systems share an Achilles heel with programming languages. They're both limited by the number of lines of code that can be maintained. Once they reach about a million lines of code, my understanding is that its too unwieldy to maintain or debug. Thus a million lines of code is the "glass ceiling" for now. On a more positive note, research into machine learning is addressing this limit.