How Symbolic AI Paved the Way for Modern Machine Learning
Symbolic AI, once the cornerstone of early AI breakthroughs, represents humanity’s first systematic attempt to recreate intelligence through explicit rule-based programming. In the 1950s and 1960s, pioneering researchers believed that human intelligence could be reduced to a set of logical rules and symbols, leading to the development of expert systems and formal reasoning engines that could solve complex problems through predefined logical steps.
Unlike modern machine learning approaches that learn patterns from data, symbolic AI relies on human-encoded knowledge and reasoning frameworks. This …