Douglas Lenat

Douglas Lenat

Founder and Chief Scientist of Cycorp, creator of the Cyc project, pioneer in artificial intelligence and knowledge representation, former researcher at Stanford and Carnegie Mellon University.

About

Douglas Lenat is a prominent computer scientist specializing in artificial intelligence.
He founded Cycorp and developed Cyc, an ambitious AI project aimed at encoding common sense knowledge.
His work has significantly influenced knowledge representation and automated reasoning.
Lenat has held research positions at top institutions such as Stanford and Carnegie Mellon.
He continues to drive innovation in AI through Cycorp's efforts to build intelligent systems capable of human-like reasoning.

Areas of Expertise

computer scientist AI researcher

Recent Podcasts

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

Topic: Artificial Intelligence and Common Sense Reasoning

02:52:56135,6172,3684 years ago
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