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Some AI pioneers seem to feel that rule-based symbolic solutions still have a place, e.g.

http://dustycloud.org/blog/sussman-on-ai/

If we are depending on AI systems to make important decisions, possibly life-or-death decisions, shouldn't we understand how they come to the conclusions that they do?

I cannot deny the tremendous advances in neural networks recently, but I find Sussman's point compelling.




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