Artificial Inteligence Common Sense Database

warren69 writes "Atari researcher/Stanford Prof. develops AI called Cyc, pronouced psych, based on "1.4 million truths and generalities". Allready this, umm application (linux fyi), has powered lycos search narrowing. There is encouraging results, like Cyc asking if it is human."

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download cyc

[Anonymous Coward]

(anonymous karma whoring -- whoo hoo)

Cycorp web site

OpenCyc

Sourceforge project

Old news

[joshv]

Yet another webzine discovers Cyc, and yet another crop of slashdotters hasn't heard of it... If you read the article, the damned thing asked if it was human in 1986. This is news?

I have been following this thing for at least 5 years, and they have continually been just a few years away from real world applications. One of the things they have been talking about for a long while was Cyc approaching the ability to "read" for itself, and gather new information for it's database from the web, newspapers, or any other authoritative source. They've been talking about it for a long time and it hasn't happened yet.

It is a very interesting application, but will probably never amount to anything near human intelligence - a very versatile expert system at best.

-josh

OpenCyc project on SourceForge

[Cycon]

I don't personally have anything to do with the project, but I thought it might be worth mentioning that there's an OpenCyc project being hosted by SourceForge. From their website:

OpenCyc is the open source version of the Cyc technology, the world's largest and most complete general knowledge base and commonsense reasoning engine. Cycorp, the builders of Cyc, have set up an independent organization, OpenCyc.org, to disseminate and administer OpenCyc, and have committed to a pipeline through which all current and future Cyc technology will flow into ResearchCyc (available for R&D in academia and industry) and then OpenCyc.

--Cycon