Neural networks, meanwhile, come with a different trade-off. For years the field has aggressively debated whether such connectionist software can do what the symbolic ones can: store information and reason. Regardless of the answer, it has become clear that if they can, they do so inefficiently. Only with extraordinary amounts of data and computational power have neural networks even begun to have the kinds of behaviors that may suggest the emergence of either property. That said, one area where deep learning models really shine is how easy it is to commercialize them. You do not need
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