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I understand what you are saying. I'm able to see that brittleness as feature. The brittleness must be expressed so that the user of the model understands the limits and why the brittleness exists.

My thinking is that the next generation of computing will rely on the human bridging that brittleness gap.

>>detour+(OP)
The thing about "expert systems" is that they're just glorified database query. (And yes, you can do also 'semantic' inference in a DB simply by adding some views. It's not generally done because it's quite computationally expensive even for very simple taxonomy structures, i.e. 'A implies B which implies C and foo is A, hence foo is C'.)

Database query is of course ubiquitous, but not generally thought of as 'AI'.