Considering this article is 3 years old, wanted to add some updates on Symbolic AI since then.
I agree with the historic view of Symbolic AI but with Neuro Symbolic AI (NeSy), some of those concerns have been addressed. NeSy is leveraging the NN with Symbolic programming (example research—https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.01889)
Considering this article is 3 years old, wanted to add some updates on Symbolic AI since then.
I agree with the historic view of Symbolic AI but with Neuro Symbolic AI (NeSy), some of those concerns have been addressed. NeSy is leveraging the NN with Symbolic programming (example research—https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.01889)
This research (https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.01040) published in Jan 2024 is a good survey of this approach (and its challenges).