Pedro Domingos: AlphaGo is a symbolic search system with a neural net heuristic
pmddomingos · x · 2026-10-18
Prominent researcher Pedro Domingos argues that AlphaGo is essentially a standard symbolic search system, with a neural network serving only as the heuristic. The claim rekindles the classic symbolic-vs-connectionist debate about AI paradigms.
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