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Field

Symbolic AI

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intelligence as rules over written symbols, added by hand

Where it sits

The prism has six jobs across and eight layers down. Its primary cell isno mode × L1. Hatched cells cannot exist — a GPU does not learn, an institution does not infer.

Overlays: Interpretability & transparency.

What must come first — and what it unlocks

Left to right is reading order, derived from the prerequisite_of edges. Nothing here is hand-ordered: the diagram is the graph.

nothing comes first — this is a starting pointSymbolic AInothing depends on it yet — a leaf in the reading order

What kind of thing it is — and what it is made of

Examples of it: Expert system.

It is made of: Knowledge representation.

Where to read it

The chapter that introduces it, and any chapter that uses it again.

16Rules All the Way Downact 4 · The First Attempts

Where it comes from

paperPrograms with Common SenseJohn McCarthy · 1958
bookArtificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (4th ed.)Stuart Russell, Peter Norvig · 2020

Every connection

All 3 edges touching this node, grouped by relation family — the sections above are highlights from this list. Colours match the relation families inthe atlas.

Structure · 2
has as a partKnowledge representationMechanism
has as an instanceExpert systemSystem
Contrast · 1
trades off withPerceptronMechanism

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