12-08-2025
- Science
- Wall Street Journal
Meet Neurosymbolic AI, Amazon's Method for Enhancing Neural Networks
Neural networks aren't the only game in artificial intelligence, but you'd be forgiven for thinking otherwise after the hot streak sparked by ChatGPT's arrival in 2022.
That model's abilities, shocking at the time and bracing even now, set off a fundraising, spending and development binge that has largely eclipsed a neural-network alternative known as symbolic reasoning. Instead of the statistical, data-driven processes of neural networks, it uses logic and symbols to solve problems that can be expressed in code.
