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

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The Knowledge Accubitization Institute, NACS, KNAX

I mean, this whole thing is just fascinating from a philosophical, there's part of me. We're we've formed a not not for profit company called the Knowledge Accubitization Institute (KNAX) And I have this firm belief with a lot of empirical evidence to support it that the education that people get in high schools and colleges are almost completely irrelevant to how good they'll be at doing this kind of ontological engineering. So one of the bestOntological engineers we ever had never graduated high school.

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