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#221 – Douglas Lenat: Cyc and the Quest to Solve Common Sense Reasoning in AI
Lex Fridman Podcast
The Knowledge Base Can No Longer Be Consistent
In general, things are not both alive and dead at the same time. Well, unless special cats in theoretical physics examples. So what you bring up is this really important point of like, well, how do you handle exceptions and inconsistencies and so on? And one of the hardest lessons for us to learn was we had to give up global consistency. The knowledge base can no longer be consistent. This is a kind of scary thought. I grew up watching Star Trek. It's more about human nature and the mortality and the kind of stuff.
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