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Douglas Lenat - Cyc and the Quest to Solve Common Sense Reasoning in AI
Wed, Sep 15, 2021 ·
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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.
Timestamps
- 1:11 - What is Cyc?
- 9:17 - How to form a knowledge base of the universe
- 19:43 - How to train an AI knowledge base
- 24:04 - Global consistency versus local consistency
- 48:25 - Automated reasoning
- 54:05 - Direct uses of AI and machine learning
- 1:06:43 - The semantic web
- 1:17:16 - Tools to help Cyc interpret data
- 1:26:26 - The most beautiful idea about Cyc
- 1:32:25 - Love and consciousness in AI
- 1:39:24 - The greatness of Marvin Minsky
- 1:44:18 - Is Cyc just a beautiful dream?
- 1:49:03 - What is OpenCyc and how was it born?
- 1:54:53 - The open source community and OpenCyc
- 2:05:20 - The inference problem
- 2:07:03 - Cyc's programming language
- 2:14:37 - Ontological engineering
- 2:22:02 - Do machines think?
- 2:30:47 - Death and consciousness
- 2:40:48 - What would you say to AI?
- 2:45:24 - Advice to young people
- 2:47:20 - Mortality
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