Adding the close-to ad-hominem attack on Francois Chollet with the comics at the beginning (Francois never claimed to be a neuro-symbolic believer), this work does a significant disservice to the community.
Adding the close-to ad-hominem attack on Francois Chollet with the comics at the beginning (Francois never claimed to be a neuro-symbolic believer), this work does a significant disservice to the community.
His response:
"This has been the most promising branch of approaches so far -- leveraging a LLM to help with discrete program search, by using the LLM as a way to sample programs or branching decisions. This is exactly what neurosymbolic AI is, for the record..."
"Deep learning-guided discrete search over program space is the approach I've been advocating, yes... there are many different flavors it could take though. This is one of them (perhaps the simplest one)."
Nope. This is neurosymbolic AI:
Abductive Knowledge Induction From Raw Data
https://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~shm/Papers/abdmetarawIJCAI.pdf
That's a symbolic learning engine trained in tandem with a neural net. The symbolic engine is learning to label examples for the neural net that learns to label examples for the symbolic engine. I call that cooking!
(Full disclosure: the authors of the paper are my thesis advisor and a dear colleague).