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AI SYSTEM — Artificial Intelligence
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Symbolic AI

Also: Regelbasierte KI · GOFAI · Expertensystem

An AI approach that represents knowledge in explicit rules and symbols instead of learning it from data.

Early AI systems – such as the expert systems of the 1970s and 80s – worked with “if-then” rules written by hand by specialists. Their advantage: every decision is traceable.

Their drawback: the real world can hardly be captured completely in rules. Today learning methods dominate, but combined with knowledge graphs and rules (“neuro-symbolic AI”) the approach is attracting renewed interest.

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