what next... a discovery of the limitations of machine learning?

I’m scared by what the Japanese are doing with Prolog…

Actually the advances in logic programming are quite compelling; answer set programming is pretty cool!

I'm not sure why it's having such a small impact though - perhaps the shear number of low cost programmers available means that no one has to use it. Although I would have thought that high cost programmers equipped with tools like these could better justify their pay.

What are they doing?

Seems to be the general trend in technology in general. Just look at NodeJS and Javascript ecosystem reinventing 90s. Now they are at the stage of JSON and Electron. Just wait until they develop a XSLT equivalent for JSON.

I’m expecting a renewed interest in Arrificial Life once the AI folks start to realize that the current crop of AI techniques is a nice bag of tricks but that we’re still falling short of what was promised.

Right, someone needs to go and check what learning classifier systems can do on modern hardware! :3