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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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What Are the Biggest Problems in the World?

If you go back and look at some of the most powerful discoveries that have been made, like relativity and superconductivity and so on, a lot of them were cases where someone took seriously the idea that there might actually be a non-obvious answer to a question. And I think that one of the things that would change that sad reality is if we had trusted AGIs that could help take a step back and question some of the paradigms that we're currently locked into.

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