These are some very valid points, and it does indeed make sense to ask “who would actually do it/advocate it/steer the industry etc.”. I was just wondering what are the chances of such approach to take-off, but maybe the current climate does not really allow for such major changes to the systems’ architecture.
Maybe my thinking is flawed, but the hope with this post was to confirm whether it would harmful or not to work on neuro-symbolic systems. Another point was to use such a system on benchmarks like ARC-AGI to prove that an alternative to dominating LLMs is possible, while also being to some degree interpretable. The linked post by @tailcalled is a good point, but I also noticed some criticism in the comments regarding concrete examples of how interpretable/less interpretable such probabilistic/symbolic system really are. Perhaps, some research on this question might not be harmful at all, but I think that is my opinion.
I’m not a technical expert by any means, but given what I’ve read I’d be surprised if that kind of research were harmful. Curious to hear what others say.
These are some very valid points, and it does indeed make sense to ask “who would actually do it/advocate it/steer the industry etc.”. I was just wondering what are the chances of such approach to take-off, but maybe the current climate does not really allow for such major changes to the systems’ architecture.
Maybe my thinking is flawed, but the hope with this post was to confirm whether it would harmful or not to work on neuro-symbolic systems. Another point was to use such a system on benchmarks like ARC-AGI to prove that an alternative to dominating LLMs is possible, while also being to some degree interpretable. The linked post by @tailcalled is a good point, but I also noticed some criticism in the comments regarding concrete examples of how interpretable/less interpretable such probabilistic/symbolic system really are. Perhaps, some research on this question might not be harmful at all, but I think that is my opinion.
I’m not a technical expert by any means, but given what I’ve read I’d be surprised if that kind of research were harmful. Curious to hear what others say.