Douglas Lenat: Cyc and the Quest to Solve Common Sense Reasoning in AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #221

Lex Fridman · 138.6K views · 2021-09-15 · 2:52:56

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Lex Fridman interviews Douglas Lenat, founder of Cyc, a decades-long project to encode common-sense knowledge and reasoning for AI. They discuss symbolic AI and how it may complement neural networks.

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Pointed to as the long-form interview for understanding Lenat's work, especially after his death.

Recommended by 3 HN people across 2 months · HN mentions 2021–2023

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mindcrime · 2023-09 · Recommendation
If anybody wants to hear more about Doug's work and ideas, here is a (fairly long) interview with Doug by Lex Fridman, from last year. [VIDEO]
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HarHarVeryFunny · 2023-09 · Recommendation
There's an interesting (& long!) recent Lex Fridman interview with Doug Lenat here: [VIDEO] Lenat thought CYC and neural nets could be complementary, with neural nets providing right brain/fast thinking capability, and CYC left brain/slow (analytic/reflective) thinking capability. It's odd to see Lenat discuss CYC the way he does - as if 40 years on everything was still going well despite it having dropped off the public radar twenty years ago.
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roeles · 2021-11 · Recommendation
I thought that Douglas Lenat's remarks (at Lex Fridman's podcast) about this were really insightful[1]. [1] [VIDEO]
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