Is the competition/cooperation between symbolic AI and statistical AI (ML) about historical approach to research / engineering, or is it more fundamentally about what intelligent agents "are"?
I have found that comprehensive overviews of artificial intelligence (Wikipedia, SEP article, Norvig and Russel's AI: A Modern Approach) make reference to symbolic AI and statistical AI in their historical context of the former preceding the latter, their corresponding limitations etc. But I have found it really difficult to dissect...
1Feb 17, 2022