The benefits of combining neurons and symbols

In the previous chapter, we mentioned several key elements that make NSAI attractive to researchers. The idea of merging two parent AI techniques and trimming away all their limitations sounds rather promising. NSAI research has explored this new generation of AI workers under different lights – each highlighting various opportunities presented by NSAI. Having said that, as argued by the director of the MIT-IBM Watson AI research lab, Dr. Cox, we can group the benefits of NSAI into three main categories. Throughout this section, we will introduce each of these categories and delve further into how they are accomplished by NSAI.

Data efficiency

There is no denying that neural networks (NNs) have been the key to multiple state-of-the-art solutions. There is no denying the powerful capabilities offered by NNs to solve highly complex problems. However, NNs are incredibly data-hungry. As we discussed in the previous chapters, NNs...