Have the neural networks outpaced the rule-based systems? It cannot be ignored: corpus-based AI has overtaken rule-based AI by far. Neural networks are making the running wherever we look. Is the competition dozing? Or are rule-based systems simply incapable of yielding equivalent results to those of neural networks? My answer is that both methods are predisposed for performing very different functions as a matter of principle. A look at their respective modes of action makes clear what the two methods can usefully be employed for. Depending on the problem to be tackled, one or the other has an advantage. Yet