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The time may come when a greatly expanded Cyc will underlie countless software applications. But reaching that goal could easily take another two decades.

— Douglas Lenat

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Sometimes the veneer of intelligence is not enough.

"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.

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.

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