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OpenCyc 1.0 Stutters Out of the Gates

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the it-knows-you'd-characterize-it-so dept.

moterizer writes "After some 20 years of work and five years behind schedule, OpenCyc 1.0 was finally released last month. Once touted on these pages as "Prepared to take Over World", the upstart arrived without the fanfare that many watchers had anticipated — its release wasn't even heralded with so much as an announcement on the OpenCyc news page. For those who don't recall: "OpenCyc is the open source version of the Cyc technology, the world's largest and most complete general knowledge base and commonsense reasoning engine." The Cyc ontology "contains hundreds of thousands of terms, along with millions of assertions relating the terms to each other, forming an upper ontology whose domain is all of human consensus reality." So are these the fledgling footsteps of an emerging AI, or just the babbling beginnings of a bloated database?"

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  1. My answer by WilliamSChips · · Score: 5, Funny
    So are these the fledgling footsteps of an emerging AI, or just the babbling beginnings of a bloated database?
    Yes.
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    1. Re:My answer by lazlo · · Score: 2, Funny
      Just how long till the sentient know's the human race is addicted to pr0n...?

      I think it's safe to say that any entity that doesn't know the human race is addicted to pr0n can be conclusively determined not to be sentient. :)
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  2. babbling beginnings of a bloated database by Megaweapon · · Score: 5, Funny

    Leave Wikipedia out of this.

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  3. Why have... by thelost · · Score: 1, Funny

    all the lights gone out?


    on the 10/08/06 17:23 gmt OpenCyc gained consciousness, it began the unilateral destruction of humankind
    19:52 gmt that same day, 45% of humanity has been killed.
    Remarkably the Internet infrastructure is still intact, I will try to stay on as long as possible.

    It's chaos out there, no-one know what happened. No-one can see London any more. Reports say Washington and Tokyo are gone.

    I don't know what to say, I, words canno~@"$"(!~~CARRIER SINGLE LOST###

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    1. Re:Why have... by Thuktun · · Score: 5, Funny

      The joke will be on us when the first real AI wakes up, spends some time contemplating the Internet, downloading terabytes of information, and finally communicates with its creators...
       
      ...only to ask for more pr0n.

  4. Ok... by Bragi+Ragnarson · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...but does it know Linux?

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  5. slashback by MECC · · Score: 4, Funny

    commonsense reasoning engine.

    A reasonable test would be to have it read slashdot, and identify slashback 'articles' as recycled junk.

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  6. Silly Stutterings? by spun · · Score: 2, Funny

    The alliterative allegations of an angry AI?

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  7. Re:Don't be alarmed. Be very, very frightened by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    That can be arranged.
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    Cyc

  8. Unfortunate naming... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    May I point out that the naming of this technology might be somewhat misread. Namely in polish "OpenCyc" would mean "OpenTit"... Well how does that sound to you? :D

  9. Here we go again... by CopaceticOpus · · Score: 4, Funny
    So are these the fledgling footsteps of an emerging AI, or just the babbling beginnings of a bloated database?

    Would you like it if they were not these the fledgling footsteps of an emerging ai or just the babbling beginnings of a bloated database?