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)."
Pitching him against LLMs in such a binary fashion is deceiving and unfair.