Some AI pioneers seem to feel that rule-based symbolic solutions still have a place, e.g. http://dustycloud.org/blog/sussman-on-ai/ http://dustycloud.org/blog/

Some AI pioneers seem to feel that rule-based symbolic solutions still have a place, e.g. http://dustycloud.org/blog/sussman-on-ai/ http://dustycloud.org/blog/sussman-on-ai/ If we are depending on AI systems to make important decisions, possibly life-or-death decisions, shouldn't we understand how they come to the conclusions that they do? I cannot deny the tremendous advances in neural networks recently, but I find Sussman's point compelling.