Today I Noticed a Trio of Articles by Mr Miroslav Pivoda and I Must Say, I've Never Read Anything Like It!

Today I noticed a trio of articles by Mr Miroslav Pivoda and I must say, I've never read anything like it! Thirty years ago, when machine learning and neural networks were still in their infancy, expert systems ruled the realm of AI. People believed they could describe the complex causality of the world using rules like – if A then B. It soon became clear that the complexity of the world was far too intricate for such a primitive approach.

However, there has been an exceptionally ambitious project in artificial intelligence in the Czech Republic for 30 years, known as OLS! For historians of Czech AI and lovers of curiosities, it is essential to take a look at these three articles:

SCIENCE: When Computers Will Ask "Why?" SCIENCE: How Czech AI Could Have Asked "Why?" But Didn't SCIENCE: Why a Promising Czech AI Project Died

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