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#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:
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() – Introduction
() – What is Cyc?
() – How to form a knowledge base of the universe
() – How to train an AI knowledge base
() – Global consistency versus local consistency
() – Automated reasoning
() – Direct uses of AI and machine learning
() – The semantic web
() – Tools to help Cyc interpret data
() – The most beautiful idea about Cyc
() – Love and consciousness in AI
() – The greatness of Marvin Minsky
() – Is Cyc just a beautiful dream?
() – What is OpenCyc and how was it born?
() – The open source community and OpenCyc
() – The inference problem
() – Cyc’s programming language
() – Ontological engineering
() – Do machines think?
() – Death and consciousness
() – What would you say to AI?
() – Advice to young people
() – Mortality
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