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I don’t have enough knowledge to evaluate the idea that symbolic AI would scale as well as deep learning (or could I say statistical models in general?), but wh
by chillacy 8y ago
I don’t have enough knowledge to evaluate the idea that symbolic AI would scale as well as deep learning (or could I say statistical models in general?), but what has held back symbolic AI if not for the difficulty of making it work? Surely someone out there has tried in the past 5 years if the reward is that great.
- dreamcompiler 8y agoIt's mostly because symbolic AI is not fashionable. Most AI practitioners under 40 (and VCs) seem to think AI is DL and only DL.
- jedharris 8y agoGoogle, Apple, etc. tried to make symbolic AI work for their problems but found it had intractable problems. Google fairly publicly transitioned to a deep learning approach for translation which greatly improved their results. Apple is still struggling to make the transition for Siri's question answering.
- chillacy 8y agoHow might symbolic AI become fashionable?