expert systems
A traditional AI approach that Bengio studied before discovering connectionism.
Videos Mentioning expert systems

deeplearning.ai's Heroes of Deep Learning: Yoshua Bengio
DeepLearningAI
A traditional AI approach that Bengio studied before discovering connectionism.

What is Wolfram Language? (Stephen Wolfram) | AI Podcast Clips
Lex Fridman
Mentioned as an early AI approach from the 80s and 90s that focused on particular areas and is seen as having been too modest compared to the ambition of Wolfram Language.

Sebastian Thrun: Flying Cars, Autonomous Vehicles, and Education | Lex Fridman Podcast #59
Lex Fridman
An early AI approach attempting to capture human expertise in explicit rules, which Thrun notes is limited compared to machine learning.

Pamela McCorduck: Machines Who Think and the Early Days of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #34
Lex Fridman
A type of AI system, considered by some to be the core of AI possibilities, which involves symbolic processing.

Leslie Kaelbling: Reinforcement Learning, Planning, and Robotics | Lex Fridman Podcast #15
Lex Fridman
AI systems from the 1980s that attempted to capture human expertise in specific domains using logic and rules. Kaelbling notes their limitations due to the difficulty of human knowledge articulation and superficial understanding.