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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Re:our morality

[linzeal]

Manners are a socially-based feedback mechanism for the neccesary moral structure of any given number of philosophies. The question is what god do you worship and how does he punish infidels; or more contemporary, what science will lie at the root of the next great technological revolution, and what questions of ethics (not morals) will be brought up?

Here is an example for morality that many of you are unlikely to puzzle on for long, " Which way do you pass a pipe when you are smoking?"

Mensa

[bitsformoney]

What's the deal with this Mensa membership? Are you talking about that "IQ" society? I passed their stupid test once but no one there was intelligent enough to explain to me why I should join now.

Re:our morality

[VeryApe]

No silicon heaven?

But where do all the calculators go?

Re:our morality

[Graspee_Leemoor]

"No silicon heaven?

But where do all the calculators go?"

Red Dwarf. What do I win ?

graspee

Re:*sigh*

[Graspee_Leemoor]

In your first example an adjective is used; two things are said both to be "intelligent"; in your second example two nouns are said to both be a noun.

I imagine they have taught it that "animal" has sub-classes.

graspee

Re:our morality

[neocon]

We are all Palestinian [sinkers.org]

Leaving aside the racist and false analogies of the site you link to, just what does this statement mean? That we are all citizens of a totalitarian dictatorship which pays us to send our children to blow themselves up in the children's areas of restaurants in order to distract us from the fact that we live in a state in which we have no freedoms and no democracy? I'd have to differ, really...

Speelin'.

[Grendel Drago]

The italicized words are from whoever mailed in the story. The editors don't write them. Sheesh, is this really so complicated?

Re:our morality

[Com2Kid]

Yup, slashdot. And inflammatory sig linked to a racist flamebait page is unmodded, but a disagreement is modded down.

How the hell is an anti-racist site racist? Because it depicts a bunch of cruel ass bastards being dickheads?

Now nobody is defending the VIOLENT palestinians, just the ones who are getting their asses shot up and their children raped.

Fuck man, look at the pictures some time, both sides of that war are doing horrific shit, and civilians on both sides don't deserve it.

And he's had that sig for ages now, he might have been originally modded down for it, but hell, that was ages ago.

Besides, sigs are personal lines, you can put whatever you want in them. Yeesh. As long as it ain't illegal shit, some people link to HC porn
in their sigs ::shrugs::