kaal:claim:5541658-002

Early legal expert systems failed because they were brittle: they could not handle unforeseen complexity and could not generalize beyond the domains they were explicitly programmed for.

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However, early expert systems were brittle, struggling with unforeseen complexities and lacking the ability to generalize beyond their programmed

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Wulf A. Kaal, Morgan A. Gray, The Evolving Role of Artificial Intelligence in Law (2025), The 1980s: Rise of Legal Expert Systems, p. 6
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Wulf A. Kaal, Morgan A. Gray, The Evolving Role of Artificial Intelligence in Law (2025). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5541658

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rule-based systems of the 1980s

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failuresupport: arguedfailure: expert system brittlenessfamily: ai-model-and-training-failurelaw-and-legal-systems

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