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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.

— Douglas Lenat

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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.

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.

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