Douglas Lenat obit: “The project was called Cyc. He set out to define the fundamental but largely unspoken laws that outline how the world works”

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Link. “In the fall, as ChatGPT captured the public imagination, Dr. Lenat and the cognitive scientist Gary Marcus began work on a new paper meant to show the new generation of researchers what they could learn from his nearly 40 years of work on Cyc. While working on the project, he had a recurrence of cancer that had first appeared in 2021.”

https://bit.ly/3LbcPVD is the short paper written as he was dying.

#AI #Cyc