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I've been reading so much about the death of symbolic AI and the complete victory of statistical approaches lately, that I suspect that a new symbolic hype-cycle is about to start.

I know this sounds counter-intuitive, but if you've been following such trends for a while, you might agree with me.

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I feel like we will end up with a hybrid approach. Powerful statistical models woven together with some kind of logic system..

Well, it's hard to understand why, but for some reason everybody isn't expecting this.

The hype goes on waves, "symbolic AI solves everything!", "no, numeric AI solves everything!".

Exactly!

The maturation and increasing usage of practical SMT solvers is a big sign.

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