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#221 – Douglas Lenat: Cyc and the Quest to Solve Common Sense Reasoning in AI
Lex Fridman Podcast
Do You Know When You Need It?
When things are unexpected, when you come up against a situation which is novel, it may be fine to have a small program. But that 1% of the time when something strange happens, you really need to draw on common sense. For instance, my wife and I were driving recently and there was a trash truck in front of us. And we know what we throw away in trash bags, probably not a safe thing to run over. Over on the left was a bunch of fast food restaurant trash bags. We'll run over that. Now, that's the kind of thing that's going to happen maybe once in your life. There's almost no telling what little bits of knowledge about the
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