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#221 – Douglas Lenat: Cyc and the Quest to Solve Common Sense Reasoning in AI
Lex Fridman Podcast
Is Lisp Really the Programming Language?
Lisp was the programming language based on logic that John McCarthy and others who developed it basically said, can we basically make a programming language which is effectively logic? And so since we're talking about reasoning in about expressions written in this logical epistemological language. It does not take programmers very long at all to learn sub L. That's something which can then be translated efficiently into Java. For some of our programmers who are doing, say, user interface work, then they never have to even learning sub L. They just have to learn APIs into the basic psych engine. So you're not necessarily feeling the burden of like it's extremely efficient. Right.
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