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#221 – Douglas Lenat: Cyc and the Quest to Solve Common Sense Reasoning in AI

#221 – Douglas Lenat: Cyc and the Quest to Solve Common Sense Reasoning in AI

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Douglas Lenat is the founder of Cyc, a 37 year project aiming to solve common-sense knowledge and reasoning in AI. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Squarespace: https://lexfridman.

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Douglas Lenat is the founder of Cyc, a 37 year project aiming to
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OUTLINE:

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(00:00) – Introduction

(07:39) – What is Cyc?

(15:45) – How to form a knowledge base of the universe

(26:11) – How to train an AI knowledge base

(30:32) – Global consistency versus local consistency

(54:53) – Automated reasoning

(1:00:33) – Direct uses of AI and machine learning

(1:13:11) – The semantic web

(1:23:44) – Tools to help Cyc interpret data

(1:32:54) – The most beautiful idea about Cyc

(1:38:53) – Love and consciousness in AI

(1:45:52) – The greatness of Marvin Minsky

(1:50:46) – Is Cyc just a beautiful dream?

(1:55:31) – What is OpenCyc and how was it born?

(2:01:21) – The open source community and OpenCyc

(2:11:48) – The inference problem

(2:13:31) – Cyc’s programming language

(2:21:05) – Ontological engineering

(2:28:30) – Do machines think?

(2:37:15) – Death and consciousness

(2:47:16) – What would you say to AI?

(2:51:52) – Advice to young people

(2:53:48) – Mortality