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by dreamcompiler 2760 days ago
It's mostly because symbolic AI is not fashionable. Most AI practitioners under 40 (and VCs) seem to think AI is DL and only DL.
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Google, Apple, etc. tried to make symbolic AI work for their problems but found it had intractable problems. Google fairly publicly transitioned to a deep learning approach for translation which greatly improved their results. Apple is still struggling to make the transition for Siri's question answering.
How might symbolic AI become fashionable?