'Neurosymbolic winning was obvious in hindsight': neural nets entered the platonic realm

joshua_saxe · x · 2026-10-15

Responding to the take that neurosymbolic approaches winning "should've been obvious in hindsight," joshuasaxe agrees "unironically," adding that thanks to symbol manipulation, neural networks have entered the platonic realm — something hard to see coming ten years ago.

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