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Neuro-Symbolic AI

By : Alexiei Dingli, David Farrugia
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Neuro-Symbolic AI

By: Alexiei Dingli, David Farrugia

Overview of this book

Neuro-symbolic AI offers the potential to create intelligent systems that possess both the reasoning capabilities of symbolic AI along with the learning capabilities of neural networks. This book provides an overview of AI and its inner mechanics, covering both symbolic and neural network approaches. You’ll begin by exploring the decline of symbolic AI and the recent neural network revolution, as well as their limitations. The book then delves into the importance of building trustworthy and transparent AI solutions using explainable AI techniques. As you advance, you’ll explore the emerging field of neuro-symbolic AI, which combines symbolic AI and modern neural networks to improve performance and transparency. You’ll also learn how to get started with neuro-symbolic AI using Python with the help of practical examples. In addition, the book covers the most promising technologies in the field, providing insights into the future of AI. Upon completing this book, you will acquire a profound comprehension of neuro-symbolic AI and its practical implications. Additionally, you will cultivate the essential abilities to conceptualize, design, and execute neuro-symbolic AI solutions.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Summary

In this chapter, we looked at AI and how it evolved from humble beginnings until today, taking the world by storm. Through the different stages, we saw how AI slowly started seeping into various applications and leaving its mark, even where people traditionally reigned supreme. The chapter also introduced us to the different subfields of AI and briefly explained their contribution to the bigger picture.

Finally, we skimmed through various AI pitfalls, thus helping us realize that even though AI is a very powerful technology, it also has several limitations. This is why we need to seek new, more powerful alternatives, and this new hope seems to rely on a combination of statistical and symbolic AI.

But before delving further into it, in our next chapter, we will look at the rise and fall of symbolic AI so that we can understand what it is, before exploring the new field of neuro-symbolic AI.