This book offers a thorough examination of how Symbolic AI functions, its areas of strength, and how it combines with contemporary machine learning methods, covering everything from expert systems and logical reasoning to knowledge graphs and hybrid AI. Regardless of your background researcher, developer, or AI enthusiast you will learn about:

The history and development of Good Old-Fashioned AI (GOFAI)

• Fundamental ideas of automated reasoning, inference engines, and logic
• Uses of rule-based systems in the fields of finance, law, and healthcare
• How intelligent data is organized using knowledge graphs and ontologies
• Neuro-symbolic AI's ascent, which unites deep learning and logic, and its significance for the development of Explainable AI (XAI) and Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)