Comment by _game_of_life

I'm far from an expert in this subject but doesn't this ranking of large text compression algorithms with NNCP coming first suggest that neural-nets are pretty great at compression?

http://mattmahoney.net/dc/text.html

https://bellard.org/nncp/

I don't see examples of high performing symbolic AI based compression algorithms anywhere, but again I am very ignorant, do you have examples?