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

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Psychics - How to Recover a Loss Deficiency

Psych has recouped this loss deficiency. A second important way is meta reasoning. You can speed things up by focusing on removing knowledge from the system till all it has left is like minimal knowledge needed to, right? That would be like in a human extirpating part of their brain or something that's really bad. So instead, what you want to do is give it meta level advice, tactical and strategic advice which enables it to reason about what kind of knowledge is going to be relevant to this problem. When is it time to start trying to prove the negation of this thing because I'm knocking myself out trying to prove it's true and maybe it's false? And if

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