Pedro Domingos: Neural nets are symbolic systems with embedded symbols and weighted rules
pmddomingos · x · 2026-09-06
Prominent AI researcher Pedro Domingos offers a one-line take: neural networks are essentially symbolic systems, just with embedded symbols and weighted rules — a concise unifying view in the long-running symbolism vs. connectionism debate.
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