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19761970s
Douglas Lenat
Researcher focused on giving AI 'common sense' via the massive Cyc project.
Organizations
Stanford UniversityMCCCycorp
Major Achievements
- •Created AM (Automated Mathematician) and Eurisko, programs that discovered heuristics.
- •Launched the Cyc project in 1984 to encode fundamental human common knowledge into a machine-readable format.
- •A staunch defender of the symbolic, knowledge-engineering approach to AI.
Key Papers
- CYC: A Large-Scale Investment in Knowledge Infrastructure
Douglas B. Lenat · Communications of the ACM · 1995
Videos
Douglas Lenat: Cyc and the Quest to Solve Common Sense Reasoning in AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #221
Lex Fridman