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

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Open Psych

There's a line between very domain specific companies, specific stuff and the general knowledge that comes from that. So I've had a lot of trouble expressing and convincing other AI researchers how important it is to use an expressive representation language like we do with this higher order logic. And so if you look, there are a lot of robotics companies today, for example, which use Open Psych as their fundamental ontology. We were doing it to show people why that's not really what they wanted. Too many people thought somehow that this was psych or that this was, in fact, good enough for them.

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