neurosymbolic

English

Etymology

From neuro- +‎ symbolic.

Adjective

neurosymbolic (comparative more neurosymbolic, superlative most neurosymbolic)

  1. (artificial intelligence) Involving the integration of neural network methods with symbolic reasoning systems.
    • 2025, Karen Hao, Empire of AI, New York City: Penguin Press, →ISBN:
      That’s not even considering approaches that move away from deep learning—neurosymbolic AI, pure expert systems, or even fundamentally new paradigms—which would break the logic of scaling.
    • 2025 November 25, Nicola Jones, “This AI combo could unlock human-level intelligence”, in Nature‎[1]:
      Now, however, the computer-science community is pushing hard for a better and bolder melding of the old and the new. ‘Neurosymbolic AI’ has become the hottest buzzword in town. Brandon Colelough, a computer scientist at the University of Maryland in College Park, has charted the meteoric rise of the concept in academic papers (see ‘Going up and up’). These reveal a spike of interest in neurosymbolic AI that started in around 2021 and shows no sign of slowing down.
    • 2026 January 3, “Three questions AI needs to answer”, in FT Weekend, page 6:
      Expect to hear a lot more about neurosymbolic AI, which attempts to merge existing data-driven neural networks with rules-based symbolic AI.
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