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

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Is It Possible to Learn Anything?

I like the model of what that learning happens at the edge, and then you kind of think of knowledge as this sphere. So, you want to large sphere because the learning is happening on the surface. You have the what you can learn next increases quadratically as the diameter of that sphere goes up. But it's nice because you think when you know nothing, it's like you can learn anything, but the reality not really. Right, if you know if you knows nothing, you can really learn nothing. I'll also go back and give you about why I feel so strongly about this personally,. In 1981, my daughter, Nicole, was born, and she's actually doing fine

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