[HN Gopher] Abstract visual reasoning based on algebraic methods
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       Abstract visual reasoning based on algebraic methods
        
       Author : bryanrasmussen
       Score  : 9 points
       Date   : 2025-06-08 15:08 UTC (7 hours ago)
        
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       | canjobear wrote:
       | It seems like if this really works, then it should do well on
       | ARC.
        
         | nialse wrote:
         | At a glance it seems that the authors do not think this is
         | viable in the real world. Without looking it up it appears that
         | it is from the field of symbolic AI.
        
       | nialse wrote:
       | There's an impedance mismatch between symbolic and statistical
       | views of world knowledge: one grounded in logic, the other in
       | probability. Natural language, during the last century
       | programming languages and more recently large language models,
       | offer the strongest bridges we've ever seen between these
       | paradigms. Perhaps one day they'll be fully fused. And perhaps
       | none of us will truly understand how.
        
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