The following is a conversation with Doug Lennett, creator of Psych, a system that for close to 40 years

and still today has sought to solve the core problem of artificial intelligence,

the acquisition of common sense knowledge and the use of that knowledge to think, to reason

and to understand the world. To support this podcast, please check out our sponsors in the description.

As a side note, let me say that in the excitement of the modern era of machine learning, it is easy

to forget just how little we understand exactly how to build the kind of intelligence that matches

the power of the human mind. To me, many of the core ideas behind Psych, in some form,

in actuality or in spirit, will likely be part of the AI system that achieves general superintelligence.

But perhaps more importantly, solving this problem of common sense knowledge will help us humans

understand our own minds, the nature of truth, and finally, how to be more rational and more kind to each other.

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I use the Squarespace to create Gogginschallenge.com back in the spring for the 4x4x48 challenge,

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