I mostly agree with Gary on the core premise of this post, which I interpret generally as "it would be a good idea to pursue neuro-symbolic AI, not just deep le

I mostly agree with Gary on the core premise of this post, which I interpret generally as "it would be a good idea to pursue neuro-symbolic AI, not just deep learning." A couple of additional thoughts: 1. She goes on to point out that the field has become an intellectual monoculture, with the neurosymbolic approach largely abandoned, and massive funding going to the pure connectionist (neural network) approach Just to nitpick... that is largely true, but with the caveat that there has been something of a resurgence of interest in neuro-symbolic AI over just the last couple of years. There's been a series of "Neuro-Symbolic AI Summer School" events[1][2][3] going on since 2022 with the next one coming up in August. And there have been recent books[4][5] published specifically on neuro-symbolic AI. You'll also find recent papers on neuro-symbolic AI on arXiv[6]. So for those who are interested in this topic, there is definitely activity underway "out there". 2. Including LLMs somewhere in the next evolution of AI makes sense to me, but leaving them at the core may be a mistake. I've spent a lot of time thinking about this, and generally agree with this sentiment. Some kind of fusion of LLM's (or "connectionism" in general) and symbolic processing seems desirable, but I'm not sure that we should rely on LLM's to be "core" and try to just layer symbolic processing on top of what we get from the LLM. I have my own thoughts on how such an integration might work, but it's all still speculative at the moment. But I find the whole notion worthy enough to invest time and attention into it, for whatever that is worth. [1]: https://ibm.github.io/neuro-symbolic-ai/events/ns-summerschool2022/ https://ibm.github.io/neuro-symbolic-ai/events/ns-summerscho... [2]: https://neurosymbolic.github.io/nsss2023/ https://neurosymbolic.github.io/nsss2023/ [3]: https://neurosymbolic.github.io/nsss2024/ https://neurosymbolic.github.io/nsss2024/ [4]: https://www.amazon.com/Neuro-Symbolic-AI-transparent-trustworthy-understand-ebook/dp/B0C4PZMMWY/ https://www.amazon.com/Neuro-Symbolic-AI-transparent-trustwo... [5]: https://www.iospress.com/catalog/books/handbook-on-neurosymbolic-ai-and-knowledge-graphs https://www.iospress.com/catalog/books/handbook-on-neurosymb... [6]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2501.05435 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2501.05435