Comment by sothatsit

I used to think symbolic AI would become more important to modern AI, but I think that was just wishful thinking on my part, because I like it.

Now I think symbolic AI is more likely to remain a tool that LLM-based systems can make use of. LLMs keep getting better and better at tool use and writing scripts to solve problems, and symbolic AI is a great tool for certain classes of problems. But symbolic AI is just too rigid to be used most of the time.