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Take for example Expert Systems (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expert_system) which are AI systems designed to make logical inferences. They had systems that could do accurate logical inferences in the 1970s, and even designed a VAX chip (SID) and made medical diagnosises (MYCIN) [apparently] to a level at or above many physicians.

Why are innovations like these (another example being genetic algorithms) ignored and forgotten about even though they work better in logical problems which LLMs suck at?

Monads are just things that let you apply a value to something that cannot be defined with just regular values, e.g. metres applied to 300 for 300 metres, or dollars applied to 20 for 20 dollars.