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

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Is There a Need for a Body?

Do you think this AI system, we need to have some other human-like elements, for example, a body or a physical manifestation in this world? And another one, which seems to be fundamental to the human experience is consciousness. Do you think it needs those to be able to pass all of those tests and to achieve general intelligence? It's a good question. I know there are a lot of people, like Penrose, who would have disagreed with me and so on, and others. But no, I don't think it needs to have a body in order to be intelligent. If you believe that, that's just a kind of religious or mystical belief. You can't really

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