> I went through Stanford CS in the mid-1980s, just when it was becoming clear that expert systems were a flop. The faculty was in denial about that. It was sad to see.
It's interesting how this appears to be a recurring cycle - when I attended school, it appeared that the faculty were in denial about the death of probabilistic graphical models and advanced bayesian techniques in favor of simple linear algebra with unsupervised learning. Even when taught about deep ML, there was heavy emphasis on stuff like VAE which had fun bayesian interpretations.
It's interesting how this appears to be a recurring cycle - when I attended school, it appeared that the faculty were in denial about the death of probabilistic graphical models and advanced bayesian techniques in favor of simple linear algebra with unsupervised learning. Even when taught about deep ML, there was heavy emphasis on stuff like VAE which had fun bayesian interpretations.