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#221 – Douglas Lenat: Cyc and the Quest to Solve Common Sense Reasoning in AI
Lex Fridman Podcast
The Future of AI and the Future of the World
I like the push and pull of our dance that we're doing with AI. It's often an intuition that people have that somehow AI will be used to maybe overpower people by certain select groups. To me, the likely scenario is it'll be used to empower people. And obviously as an engineer, I have a better sense and an optimism about the technology side of things because you can control things there more. We're living through a pandemic now. There's so many ways that nature can just be just destructive and destructive in a way where it doesn't even notice you. The other problem with the internet is that it has enabled us to surround ourselves with an echo chamber with a bubble of
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