Douglas B. Lenat

1950–2023 · American entrepreneur and researcher in artificial intelligence

Topics: artificial intelligence

• 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 B. Lenat

• Sometimes the veneer of intelligence is not enough.

  — Douglas B. 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.

  — Douglas B. Lenat