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It's called symbolic AI, or sometimes GOFAI for good old-fashioned AI. It's no longer considered AI by the wider public, it seems. I believe those techniques are still widely used, but they have reached their limit quite some time ago. Cyc was maybe the high water mark of that approach. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyc