Douglas Lenat: Cyc and the Quest to Solve Common Sense Reasoning in AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #221
Lex Fridman
Douglas Lenat, creator of the CYC project launched in 1984 at Stanford University, explains his decades-long mission to solve the core problem of artificial intelligence: acquiring common sense knowledge and using it for reasoning. He argues that early AI systems failed because they lacked a solid f …