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Questions tagged [symbolic-computing]

For questions about the use of symbolic computing in AI (like LISP programming language).

In mathematics and computer science, computer algebra, also called symbolic computation or algebraic computation is a scientific area that refers to the study and development of algorithms and software for manipulating mathematical expressions and other mathematical objects

What is symbolic computation?

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What roles knowledge bases play now and will play in the future?

Nowadays, artificial intelligence seems almost equal to machine learning, especially deep learning. Some have said that deep learning will replace human experts, traditionally very important for feature engineering, in this field. It is said that…
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Is anybody still researching GOFAI?

A lot of textbooks and introductory lectures typically split AI into connectionism and GOFAI (Good Old Fashioned AI). From a purely technical perspective, it seems that connectionism has grown into machine learning and data science, while nobody…
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Recent work on “Oracular” systems such as Eliza?

I know Eliza is considered a Natural Language Processing application, but the application of NLP in this context is “Oracular”. What I mean by Oracular is that the systems was designed to produce ambiguous output to facilitate the instinct of the…
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Can rule induction be considered a way to "hybridize" probabilistic / statistical approaches and symbolic approaches?

In years past, GOFAI (Good Old Fashioned AI) was heavily based on "rules" and symbolic computation based on rules. Unfortunately, that approach ran into stumbling blocks, and the world moved heavily towards statistical/probabilistic approaches…
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Is there a relationship between Computer Algebra and NLP?

My intuition is that there is some overlap between understanding language and symbolic mathematics (e.g. algebra). The rules of algebra are somewhat like grammar, and the step-by-step arguments get you something like a narrative. If one buys this…
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In what ways can connectionist AI be integrated with GOFAI?

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…
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What is symbol-to-number differentiation?

I recently came across symbol-to-symbol and symbol-to-number differentiation, out of which symbol to symbol seemed fairly straightforward - the computational graph is extended to include gradient calculations and relationships between gradients. I…
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Is there a most general-purpose unsupervised learning algorithm?

I was thinking about training a model on non-linguistic material like video, and I was wondering if it could form concepts about the world, and also somehow form composite concepts or conceptual relationships, understanding that a “cat” is something…
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