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once systems become neurosymbolic

What does this mean?




There's a whole research area that tries to combine some ideas from symbolic AI with neural architectures.

IMHO, this might eventually become mainstream. For example, see all the work that merges theorem provers with RL and NN.


What are examples of "symbolic AI", "neural architecture" and a system that is "neurosymbolic" ?


Almost everything that comes out of Deep Mind.


What makes it symbolic?


There's usually a DL part (the neural network), welded together with a classical AI algorithm, e.g. Monte Carlo Tree Search, or some kind of theorem prover.


What's the symbolic part? What does 'DL' mean here?


The symbolic part is the MCTS and/or theorem prover. DL is deep learning, i.e. the multilayered neural network. Neurosymbolic approaches form a significant branch of current machine learning. You can read up on all of it if you're actually curious and asking all this in good faith, but I suspect you're not.




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