Project Sherlock

Paper

2020

Neurosymbolic AI: The 3rd Wave

Artur d'Avila Garcez & Luis C. Lamb

Argues neural learning and symbolic reasoning solve complementary problems, and surveys the systems trying to combine them rather than treating the connectionist-symbolic debate as settled in either direction.

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Too easy? Go hereThe Neuro-Symbolic Concept LearnerMao et al., 2019Learns visual concepts and word meanings jointly from images and question-answer pairs by compiling questions into symbolic programs that execute over neural scene representations, without ever being told what an object or colour is.

Filed under Classical & Symbolic AI in Artificial Intelligence.