Dialogue

(1) Douglas Lenat insists (according to David Freedman) that “Cyc will change the way we live and work. Schools will use Cyc to provide one-on-one tutoring to students . Cyc will make scientific discoveries, apply justice, and even counsel unhappy couples. As Cyc continues to grow, pieces of it will be stored in computers around the world, its contents made available through phone lines and radio waves. Cyc’s intelligence will flow like electricity through a gigantic, ubiquitous knowledge grid.“’ (2) “‘I do not like experts,’ he said. ‘They are our jailers . Experts are addicts. They solve nothing! They are servants of whatever system hires them. They perpetuate it. When we are tortured, we shall be tortured by experts. When we are hanged, experts will hang us When the world is destroyed, it will be destroyed not by its madmen but by the sanity of its experts and the superior ignorance of its bureaucrats.“”