Recent advances in neural networks have quickly moved the state of the art forward for many applications, not least natural language processing and computer vision. But neural models still have weaknesses, for instance when it comes to reliably reasoning logically or planning. This is were methods from symbolic AI (e.g. rule based and heuristic methods) still dominate. The aim of neuro-symbolic AI is to combine the two approaches to get the best from both worlds. It will also allow us to tackle problems which neither method on its own is particularly good at. In this course, we will focus on two application areas: cognitive modeling and languages for emergent communication, and program synthesis and mathematics. Towards the end of the course, students should have sufficient knowledge to be able to follow recent research papers in these areas.

我们知道杰哥的房里有一些「好康」的。这个「好康」到底指的是什么？如果很多没有接触过闽南语的人甚至会误以为是「好看」的意思。然而这里的「好康」指的是「有好处的」，比如一些特卖资讯也常被叫作「好康资讯」。之所以会有这样的误解，很大程度上就是这里的「康」是个除了读音以外完全无关的俗字。其正确写法是「好空」。