Symbolic AI

Artificial intelligence based on human-readable symbols and explicit rules of logic rather than learned statistical patterns.

Covers AI built on explicit symbols and rules of logic, as an approach. Encoding knowledge for machine reasoning is under Knowledge representation and reasoning, systems built on a knowledge store are under Knowledge-based systems, and hybrids with neural networks are under Neuro-symbolic AI.

Scheme

• Technologies and capabilities

Broader terms

• Artificial intelligence