Advantages of Distributed Representations

1. Similarity and generalization e.g. if we discover that a chimpanzee likes onions then similarity between pattern for chimpanzee and ape allows us to automatically infer that apes like onions
2. Corollary: Can represent type/instance information easily
3. Creation of new concepts - no need to create new hardware for each new concept
   no need to decide where one concept ends and another begins