I feel that AI in the form of machine learning has the higher ground because, as an engineer, you have an attack on the problem that gets you moving instead of

I feel that AI in the form of machine learning has the higher ground because, as an engineer, you have an attack on the problem that gets you moving instead of contemplating whatifs of symbolic sci-fi. There is also the question if ML is not simply moving us into a ditch of optimum locality. I think it does. I'd love to see symbolic AI take a foothold only to have it explain back its rationalizations (which ML can't).