Y’all are bringing it back. I took an AI class in grad school mumble years ago, and I did have to learn LISP. Kinda breaks your brain as I recall.

We did something we called AI at work (not with LISP thankfully) - we fed in a bunch of examples and pulled out parameters to try to tell two things apart. My daughter did a project at school to recognize something, and it is still a very similar process - just way more data and computing power. But recognition is a great use of AI. It became better than humans a few years ago, and medicine and manufacturing are already benefiting.

Generative AI I am increasingly convinced is a blind alley. It isn’t very useful and is hideously expensive (free or subsidized now but that’s because it is in the demo phase). And I don’t think either of these will get better fast enough to make it work.