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In what ways can connectionist artificial intelligence (neural networks) be integrated with Good Old-Fashioned A.I. (GOFAI)? For instance, how could deep neural networks be integrated with knowledge bases or logical inference? One such example seems to be the OpenCog + Destin integration.

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A neural net with even a single hidden layer is capable of Universal function approximation - it can approximate any continuous function 'as closely as you like'.

Hence, one option would be to look for GOFAI applications that would benefit from this property - for example, in state-space search approaches where the utility of a state is not readily defined in advance, and could instead be learned.

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  • This has actually been done, so you could edit this answer to provide a reference or link to an example of such a work. – nbro Sep 09 '21 at 12:52