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Training Ontological Engineers
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The Knowledge Accumulation Institute aims to identify talented individuals with the ability to understand the fundamentals of the world and trains them as ontological engineers. Lisp was the programming language which was based on logic and was developed for effectively making a programming language based on formalisms that were given by philosophers and other logicians.

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Updating legacy programs involves a 50-50 split between finding efficient ways to deal with technical debt and incorporating the necessary updates of the system, which are automatically translated into Java or C for efficiency.
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Programming
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Updating legacy programs involves a 50-50 split between finding efficient ways to deal with technical debt and incorporating the necessary updates of the system, which are automatically translated into Java or C for efficiency.

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Training Ontological Engineers
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#221 – Douglas Lenat: Cyc and the Quest to Solve Common Sense Reasoning in AI
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Lex Fridman Podcast
This podcast discusses the history and nature of the Lisp programming language, its compatibility with reasoning and theorem proving, and its relevance to hiring programmers interested in automated theorem proving.
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Lisp
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This podcast discusses the history and nature of the Lisp programming language, its compatibility with reasoning and theorem proving, and its relevance to hiring programmers interested in automated theorem proving.

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Training Ontological Engineers
Episode
#221 – Douglas Lenat: Cyc and the Quest to Solve Common Sense Reasoning in AI
Podcast
Lex Fridman Podcast
Turning commonly occurring types or schemas of rules into new predicates speeds up inference processes by avoiding the need for complicated graph walks or theorem proving.
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Inference Optimization
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Turning commonly occurring types or schemas of rules into new predicates speeds up inference processes by avoiding the need for complicated graph walks or theorem proving. Redundantly storing the transitive closure of transitive relations in a table can also speed up the process significantly.

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Training Ontological Engineers
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#221 – Douglas Lenat: Cyc and the Quest to Solve Common Sense Reasoning in AI
Podcast
Lex Fridman Podcast
The Knowledge Accumulation Institute aims to offer scholarships to those with latent talent in ontological engineering and help place them in companies that need more trained professionals.
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Ontological Engineering
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The Knowledge Accumulation Institute aims to offer scholarships to those with latent talent in ontological engineering and help place them in companies that need more trained professionals. The traditional education system is largely irrelevant to this field, as empirical evidence suggests.

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Training Ontological Engineers
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#221 – Douglas Lenat: Cyc and the Quest to Solve Common Sense Reasoning in AI
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Lex Fridman Podcast
Some of the qualities required to be a good AI includes having a good sense of humor, being able to make and understand jokes, as well as being able to introspect and answer simple questions.
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Artificial Intelligence
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Some of the qualities required to be a good AI includes having a good sense of humor, being able to make and understand jokes, as well as being able to introspect and answer simple questions.

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Training Ontological Engineers
Episode
#221 – Douglas Lenat: Cyc and the Quest to Solve Common Sense Reasoning in AI
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Lex Fridman Podcast
Ontological engineering is a technical field that focuses on creating classifications of objects in the world.
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Ontological Engineering
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Ontological engineering is a technical field that focuses on creating classifications of objects in the world. Introspection is an important skill for those working in this field to effectively understand how we are able to differentiate between objects and concepts in the world around us.

Chapter
Training Ontological Engineers
Episode
#221 – Douglas Lenat: Cyc and the Quest to Solve Common Sense Reasoning in AI
Podcast
Lex Fridman Podcast