How to Use expert system in a Sentence
expert system
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At the same time, the commercial promise of expert systems began to fade.
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Paulo Carvão,
Forbes.com,
24 Aug. 2025
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The expert system was an early predecessor of AI.
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Brian Hamilton,
Fortune,
1 Sep. 2025
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As a result, by the early 1990s, companies were starting to abandon expert systems.
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Jeremy Kahn,
Fortune,
3 Sep. 2025
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Meanwhile, businesses gradually discovered that expert systems were difficult and expensive to build and maintain.
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Jeremy Kahn,
Fortune,
3 Sep. 2025
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And just like the expert systems, today’s AI models are often unreliable in real-world situations—although for different reasons.
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Jeremy Kahn,
Fortune,
9 Sep. 2025
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What’s most strikingly similar is that Fortune 500 companies were excited about expert systems and spent big money to adopt them, and some found huge productivity gains from using them.
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Jeremy Kahn,
Fortune,
9 Sep. 2025
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While the field never went entirely dormant, the collapse of dedicated hardware, the brittleness of expert systems, and the failure of national mega-projects combined to bring about the second AI winter.
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Paulo Carvão,
Forbes.com,
24 Aug. 2025
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Nevertheless, business was enthusiastic, believing expert systems would lead to a productivity boom.
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Jeremy Kahn,
Fortune,
3 Sep. 2025
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Much of it was focused on building specialized computer hardware, called LISP machines, that were optimized to run expert systems, many of which were coded in the programming language LISP.
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Jeremy Kahn,
Fortune,
3 Sep. 2025
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