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#221 – Douglas Lenat: Cyc and the Quest to Solve Common Sense Reasoning in AI
Lex Fridman Podcast
The Human Condition Is a Giant Mess
It seems like language, when used for communication between humans, almost as a feature has some ambiguity built in. It's not an accident because the human condition is a giant mess and so it feels like nobody wants to robots like very precise formal logic conversation on a first date. There's some dance of uncertainty of wit, of humor, of push and pull and all that kind of stuff. And we've all had this experience of creatively misunderstanding. If everything is made precise, then life is not worth living, I think, for in terms of the human experience.
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