[nextos]

Probably. IMHO there is a lot of low-hanging fruit for startups in the field of symbolic AI applied to biology and medicine.

Bonus points if that is combined with modern differentiable methods and SAT/SMT, i.e. neurosymbolic AI.

[jimmySixDOF]

There is MindAptive who have something about symbolics as a kind of machine language interface that I think went the other way as in trying to do everything under the sun but its the last time I came across anything reminding me of Cyc

https://mindaptiv.com/intro-to-wantware/

[riku_iki]

> IMHO there is a lot of low-hanging fruit for startups in the field of symbolic AI applied to biology and medicine.

I think the issue in this area is mostly to convince and sell to bureaucratic institutions.

[nextos]

I was thinking more in terms of a pharma startup.