Comment by sitkack
1 year ago
Hey don't shit on my retro alternative timeline nostalgia. We were all writing Lisp programs on 64 CPU Transputer systems with FPGA coprocessors, dynamically reconfigured in realtime with APL.
1 year ago
Hey don't shit on my retro alternative timeline nostalgia. We were all writing Lisp programs on 64 CPU Transputer systems with FPGA coprocessors, dynamically reconfigured in realtime with APL.
/s/LISP/Prolog and you've basically described the old "Fifth Generation" research project. Unfortunately it turns out that trying to parallelize Prolog is quite a nightmare, the language is really, really not built for it. So the whole thing was a dead-end in practice. Arguably we didn't have a real "fifth-gen" programming language prior to Rust, given how it manages to uniquely combine ease of writing parallel+concurrent code with bare-metal C like efficiency. (And Rust is now being used to parallelize database query, which comfortably addresses the actual requirement that Prolog had been intended for back then - performing "search" tasks on large and complex knowledge bases.)
You probably already know about https://github.com/mthom/scryer-prolog are you saying we should accelerate scryer-prolog with a Grayskull board?
Also, the Fifth Generation computer project subscribed to the old AI paradigm, not based on statistics.