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Artificial Inteligence Common Sense Database

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i-could-use-that-in-my-head dept.

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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  1. our morality by spookysuicide · · Score: 5, Interesting

    From the article:
    Cyc's programmers taught it that certain things in the world are salacious and shouldn't be mentioned in everyday applications.
    What do you think about imposing our morality on an AI? Is it neccesary for any artificial intelligence we create to share _all_ our values?
    If there is no afterlife for an AI and no punishment, what motivation does it have to be good?

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  2. Re:Something else to think about ... by IamTheRealMike · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Indeed, Cyc have already made money from some commercial implementations.

    For instance, they deployed the technology to an image library owned by a news company. The company had lots of images, all with different captions. The thing was, there was no fixed system for the captions, they were just english descriptions (short) of what was in the photo.

    So Cyc analysed all the captions, and turned them into CycL (it's own logic language). It then used its rudimentary natural langauge capabilities to figure out equivalents, so if you asked for "frightened child" it would match to "girl with gun held to her head" even though they contained no equivalent words. Pretty clever stuff, though they're a long way from being able to make it formulate sentances itself.