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

Sep 15, 2021
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  • Douglas Lenat discusses Cyc, a 37-year project aimed at encoding common-sense knowledge and reasoning to solve a fundamental problem in AI
  • Explores the challenge of teaching machines to understand context, reasoning, and implicit knowledge that humans take for granted
  • Addresses why common-sense reasoning remains one of the hardest problems in artificial intelligence despite advances in other areas

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Douglas Lenat
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