Watching the Shift Towards More Symbolic AGI - DataScienceCentral.com

"The fact that LeCun is even considering a hypothesis that embraces symbol manipulation, learned or otherwise, represents a monumental concession, if not a complete about-face. Historians of artificial intelligence should in fact see the Noema essay as a major turning point, in which one of the three pioneers of deep learning first directly acknowledges the inevitability of hybrid AI. And there are other examples such as Andrew Ng, Jürgen Schmidhuber's AI company NNAISENSE and Yoshual Bengio discussion on "System 2" cognition