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

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Are You a Good at Ontology?

People who are going to be good at ontological engineering will give me some causal explanation. So if you imagine a sentence like the horse was led into the barn while its head was still wet, so its head refers to the horse's head. And so then they'll say, oh, well, that's because it's the closest noun and so on. If they're able to say things like, well, horses have heads and barns don't and barns have roofs and horses don't, then that's a positive sign that they're going to begood at this.

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