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

Douglas Lenat is the founder of Cyc, a 37 year project aiming to
solve common-sense knowledge and reasoning in AI. Please support
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the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click
the timestamp to jump to that time. (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