Professor John McCarthy
Father of AI

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What Artificial Intelligence needs from Symbolic Logic

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The goal of artificial intelligence research is human-level AI. Logical AI is an approach. It requires mathematical logic with human-level expressiveness both in the formulas it can include and in the reasoning steps it allows.

  • What is logical AI?
  • The common sense informatic situation
  • Relevant history of logic
  • Problems with logical AI
  • Nonmonotonic reasoning
  • Domain dependent control of reasoning
  • Concepts as objects
  • Contexts as objects
  • Partially defined objects
  • Self-awareness
  • Remarks and references

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