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OpenCyc 1.0 Stutters Out of the Gates
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?"
Please, for the good of Humanity, vote Obama.
Leave Wikipedia out of this.
I'm sure "SlashdotMedia" will improve on all the wonders that Dice Holdings blessed us all with
...but does it know Linux?
Bragi Ragnarson Lawful Good (I change the law when it's not good)
commonsense reasoning engine.
A reasonable test would be to have it read slashdot, and identify slashback 'articles' as recycled junk.
"We are all geniuses when we dream"
- E.M. Cioran
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?
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.