Neuro-symbolic approaches in artificial intelligence PMC

David Farrugia is a seasoned data scientist and a Ph.D. candidate in AI at the University of Malta. David Farrugia has worked in diverse industries, including gaming, manufacturing, customer relationship management, affiliate marketing, and anti-fraud. He has an interest in exploring the intersection of business and academic research. He also believes that the emerging field of neuro-symbolic AI has the potential to revolutionize the way we approach AI and solve some of the most complex problems in the world. When a human brain can learn with a few examples, AI Engineers require to feed thousands into an AI algorithm. Neuro-symbolic AI systems can be trained with 1% of the data that other methods require.

A machine learning model can identify vital trial characteristics like location, duration, subject number, and statistical variables. The machine learning model’s output will be incorporated into a manually crafted risk model. This symbolic model converts these parameters into a risk value, which then appears as a traffic light signaling high, medium, or low risk to the user.

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On the other hand, a large number of symbolic representations such as knowledge bases, knowledge graphs and ontologies (i.e., symbolic representations of a conceptualization of a domain [22,23]) have been generated to explicitly capture the knowledge within a domain. In discovering knowledge from data, the knowledge about the problem domain and additional constraints that a solution will have to satisfy can significantly improve the chances of finding a good solution or determining whether a solution exists at all. Knowledge-based methods can also be used to combine data from different domains, different phenomena, or different modes of representation, and link data together to form a Web of data [8]. In Data Science, methods that exploit the semantics of knowledge graphs and Semantic Web technologies [7] as a way to add background knowledge to machine learning models have already started to emerge.

Development of knowledge graph – As a starting point of any chatbot or voice assistant development, for instance, a development team should produce a bespoke knowledge graph. We believe it’s the data structure that will propel businesses into the future, proving to be the core of all future use cases utilising AI. In the autonomous vehicle sector, symbolic AI may specify through map data where stop signs, traffic lights or obstacles in an area may be.

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Translating our world knowledge into logical rules can quickly become a complex task. While in Symbolic AI, we tend to rely heavily on Boolean logic computation, the world around us is far from Boolean. For example, a digital screen’s brightness is not just on or off, but it can also be any other value between 0% and 100% brightness. The concept of fuzziness adds a lot of extra complexities to designing Symbolic AI systems. Due to fuzziness, multiple concepts become deeply abstracted and complex for Boolean evaluation.

For example, an insurer with multiple medical claims may want to use natural language processing to automate coding so that the AI can detect and label the affected body parts automatically in an accident claim. Hybrid AI that’s based on symbolic AI capable of understanding actual knowledge like people do instead of just learning patterns – is the most effective way for enterprises to fully utilise and benefit from the data they’ve been feverishly collecting over the years. Decades of AI and NLP knowhow – Collectively, our team leverages decades of experience around AI, natural language processing and knowledge graph development. The average business user and enterprises alike can benefit massively from this experience for their customised hybrid AI solution. Nils Holzenberger at Johns Hopkins University has succeeded in translating a large amount of the US tax code (which is statute law rather than case law) into symbolic logic in Prolog (a programming language used for logical reasoning). At Fast Data Science we are working on a project for identifying the risk of a clinical trial.

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At the start of the essay, they seem to reject hybrid models, which are generally defined as systems that incorporate both the deep learning of neural networks and symbol manipulation. But by the end — in a departure from what LeCun has said on the subject in the past — they seem to acknowledge in so many words that hybrid systems exist, that they are important, that they are a possible way forward and that we knew this all along. Like in so many other respects, deep learning has had a major impact on neuro-symbolic AI in recent years. This appears to manifest, on the one hand, in an almost exclusive emphasis on deep learning approaches as the neural substrate, while previous neuro-symbolic AI research often deviated from standard artificial neural network architectures [2].

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