Any reason for the focus on old symbolic-AI techniques? Things like expert systems have fallen out in favor of learned machine learning models. Yes, machine learning is &#x27;popular&#x27; and &#x27;trendy&#x27;, but it also happens to work better and require less engineering effort to build and maintain than symbolic-AI systems.<p>Is there a market for traditional AI techniques as a service? Or maybe the wording is just throwing me off? The word &#x27;agents&#x27; in particular is used a lot in 60&#x27;s AI papers (Minsky&#x27;s influence), so maybe I&#x27;m misinterpreting?