Douglas Lenat

thumb|Douglas Lenat Douglas Bruce Lenat (September 13, 1950 – August 31, 2023) was an American computer scientist and researcher in artificial intelligence who was the founder and CEO of Cycorp, Inc. in Austin, Texas. Quotes Intelligence is ten million rules. This refers to the prior and tacit knowledge that authors presume their readers all possess (such as "if person x knows person y, then x's date of death can't be earlier than y's date of birth") not counting the vastly larger number of "facts" such as one might find in Wikipedia or by Googling. Lenat Douglas 1988 The Case for Inelegance Proceedings of the International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Industrial Applications, Tokyo, May 1988. The time may come when a greatly expanded Cyc will underlie countless software applications. But reaching that goal could easily take another two decades. Wood, Lamont. Cycorp: The Cost of Common Sense, Technology Review, March 2005 Once you have a truly massive amount of information integrated as knowledge, then the human-software system will be superhuman, in the same sense that mankind with writing is superhuman compared to mankind before writing. https://web.cs.ucla.edu/~klinger/articles/thinking_la_times_6_21_01.html Los Angeles Times 21 June 2001 Birth of a Thinking Machine Michael A. Hiltzik Sometimes the veneer of intelligence is not enough. https://cognitiveworld.com/article/sometimes-veneer-intelligence-not-enough Sometimes the Veneer of Intelligence is Not Enough CogWorld cognitiveworld.com en 2017-11-29 If computers were human, they’d present themselves as autistic, schizophrenic, or otherwise brittle. It would be unwise or dangerous for that person to take care of children and cook meals, but it’s on the horizon for home robots. That’s like saying, ‘We have an important job to do, but we’re going to hire dogs and cats to do it.' https://www.businessinsider.com/cycorp-ai-2014-7 The Most Ambitious Artificial Intelligence Project In The World Has Been Operating In Near Secrecy For 30 Years Love Dylan Business Insider July 2, 2014 October 7, 2020 "What we needed, is nothing less than an “AI Manhattan Project”, a full frontal assault on common sense: the challenge is to create an Encyclopédia of Common sense", Michio Kaku citing Lenat. Kaku Michio https://books.google.com/books?id=g2bnNHiFZXsC&q=Manhattan&pg=PA64 Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the 21st Century 1999-03-04 OUP Oxford 978-0-19-288018-5 64 en External links Category:Living people Category:Computer scientists from the United States Category:Businesspeople from the United States Category:Company founders Category:Chief executive officers Category:1950 births Category:2023 deaths