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

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Are You Afraid of Death?

As I get older, it's more on my mind, especially as acquaintances and friends and especially mentors are dying. This is really driving me toward this commercialization and increasingly widespread application of psych. It represents one of the little flames of hope that have been carried out for many years for decades. That in itself is just a really inspiring thing. You said life is finite and we talked about mortality as a feature of AGI. Are you afraid of death? Sure. I'd be crazy if I weren't.

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