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But the longer I worked there the more I felt like the plan was basically:

1. Manually add more and more common-sense knowledge and extend the inference engine

2. ???

3. AGI!

That's the same impression I had in the early days of expert systems. I once made the comment, "It's not going to work, but it's worth trying to find out why it won't work." I was thinking that rule-based inference was a dead end, but maybe somebody could reuse the knowledge base with something that works better.