On May 30, 2008, at 9:59 AM, John F. Sowa wrote:
> Ed and Len,
>
> Before commenting on your comments, I'd like to mention one of Doug
> Lenat's anecdotes. Whenever he interviews job applicants at Cyc, he
> asks them to take a short test with a few English sentences to be
> translated to first-order logic.
>
> The person Doug was interviewing happened to be a professor of
> logic, and Doug apologized for giving him such an elementary
> exercise. But the professor flunked. (01)
Sorry, I don't buy it. I suspect, if there's any truth to the
anecdote at all, that "professor of logic" worked its way into the
story for dramatic effect and that the interviewee was really a
philosophy PhD who had taught a couple of intro logic classes. Now
*that* I could believe. (02)
-chris (03)
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