The Promise of Symbolic AI

Today, most people’s conception of AI is almost exclusively based on LLMs like ChatGPT, Claude, Deepseek, Gemini, and others.  LLMs have revolutionized how we interact with information, and have in some areas dramatically increased human productivity.  This has led many to assert that AGI is, once again, just around the corner.  

This is not surprising given LLMs’ impressive capabilities:  

Creative Content Generation

LLMs excel at generating coherent, grammatically correct, and contextually relevant text for diverse forms such as articles, stories, songs, scripts, emails, and more.  They can assist in brainstorming and suggesting further content to your content, such as terms and conditions in contracts. LLMs can also generate similarly impressive music, audio, and video content.  

Summarization

LLMs have transformed the tasks of comprehending complex text, answering questions, and summarizing lengthy documents.  

Coding Assistance

LLMs are playing an ever greater role in generating code, testing software, and explaining programming concepts.  LLMs have dramatically transformed how programmers can create new software. 

Information Retrieval

LLMs can act as sophisticated search interfaces, synthesizing and presenting information from vast datasets.