By the end of the decade, expert systems proved to be highly fragile; minor changes in market or medical realities required the manual rewriting of thousands of logic rules because these systems could not generalize knowledge or learn outside their narrow database, collapsing the commercial AI market and bringing a new wave of skepticism.
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