Full of air and out of tune.
They're like feeble old men sitting in a bar telling war stories about events that never happened and glory they never achieved. They are the arrogant airbags who give talks at conferences, insulting their audiences with pompus simulations of intelligence and insight. They are the used car salesmen whose only brilliance is found in their technique to separate you from your funds.
From the article:
"Day after day since 1984, teams of programmers, linguists, theologians, mathematicians and philosophers..."
How many theologians do you have working at Cycorp. Do they work in a team? What theological knowledge have they added to Cyc?
I expect Cyc will be used in the following ways, as privacy is replaced with totalitarianism:
(1) Cyc will be used to maintain a knowledge base on each and every American.
(2) Cyc will be used to integrate disparate databases across businesses and governmental agencies by using its intelligence to join databases.
(3) The information, so joined, will permit the US Government to maintain a virtual archive on all purchases, movements, published statements (such as in chat groups), emails, telephone calls, and relationships between individuals.
(4) Such information will be used to predict whether someone is a critic of the government, whether they may take a stand against government policy, whether they have the means to plan and carry out attacks against the government (even if they have no such plans or thoughts), what books an individual reads (library and bookseller information combined with credit purchases), what you watch on your digital cable box, and other things of this sort.
(5) Based on this information, judgements will be made concerning whether or not your should be stopped and subject to further security checks when you travel.
(6) Your career options will be limited by the information that can be pulled together in this way. For example, if you are known to be a critic of the government and you apply for a job that provides access to radioactive materials, you will be blocked.
I could go on endlessly. The point is that YES, THE GOVERNMENT EXPECTS MUCH FROM CYC. It expects to use Cyc to destroy your liberty.
Of course, this is just my humble opinion.
The only thing that has changed since the 1980's sham is that computers are now cheaper and faster. Cyc adds nothing new to the field of AI. The entire concept is bankrupt. A collection of poorly paid wage slaves has little chance of augmenting enough consistant knowledge to accomplish anything but futility. Furthermore, why would you want a machine to have "commonsense." Humans pretend to operate on commonsense, but they don't. Commonsense explanations are nothing more than lies generated to excuse one's inablity to explain why one actually decided to what one did did. We need machines that ARE intelligent, and not machines that operatie on an alchemist's theory of how intelligence operates.
The article about Cyc is full of lies. It is absolutely untrue that Cycorp never looks for investors. It is absolutely untrue that there is any significance to Cyc "asking" whether it is a human. I've seen claims on the Internet that Cyc has "self awareness." If you ask what they mean by this, I am sure that they will tell you something about "self knowledge." Of course, equating "self awareness" with "self knowledge" is the kind of bunk you will receive from one of the many self important charletans who write about intelligence as if they actually know what it is. If something is self aware, there ought to be something that it is like to BE that thing. There is nothing that could be called "what it is to be Cyc."
Cyc is just another tax whore.
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Commodore 64 to do this?
Full of air and out of tune. They're like feeble old men sitting in a bar telling war stories about events that never happened and glory they never achieved. They are the arrogant airbags who give talks at conferences, insulting their audiences with pompus simulations of intelligence and insight. They are the used car salesmen whose only brilliance is found in their technique to separate you from your funds.
From the article: "Day after day since 1984, teams of programmers, linguists, theologians, mathematicians and philosophers ..."
How many theologians do you have working at Cycorp. Do they work in a team? What theological knowledge have they added to Cyc?
I expect Cyc will be used in the following ways, as privacy is replaced with totalitarianism: (1) Cyc will be used to maintain a knowledge base on each and every American. (2) Cyc will be used to integrate disparate databases across businesses and governmental agencies by using its intelligence to join databases. (3) The information, so joined, will permit the US Government to maintain a virtual archive on all purchases, movements, published statements (such as in chat groups), emails, telephone calls, and relationships between individuals. (4) Such information will be used to predict whether someone is a critic of the government, whether they may take a stand against government policy, whether they have the means to plan and carry out attacks against the government (even if they have no such plans or thoughts), what books an individual reads (library and bookseller information combined with credit purchases), what you watch on your digital cable box, and other things of this sort. (5) Based on this information, judgements will be made concerning whether or not your should be stopped and subject to further security checks when you travel. (6) Your career options will be limited by the information that can be pulled together in this way. For example, if you are known to be a critic of the government and you apply for a job that provides access to radioactive materials, you will be blocked. I could go on endlessly. The point is that YES, THE GOVERNMENT EXPECTS MUCH FROM CYC. It expects to use Cyc to destroy your liberty. Of course, this is just my humble opinion.
I would suggest shamosity.
The only thing that has changed since the 1980's sham is that computers are now cheaper and faster. Cyc adds nothing new to the field of AI. The entire concept is bankrupt. A collection of poorly paid wage slaves has little chance of augmenting enough consistant knowledge to accomplish anything but futility. Furthermore, why would you want a machine to have "commonsense." Humans pretend to operate on commonsense, but they don't. Commonsense explanations are nothing more than lies generated to excuse one's inablity to explain why one actually decided to what one did did. We need machines that ARE intelligent, and not machines that operatie on an alchemist's theory of how intelligence operates. The article about Cyc is full of lies. It is absolutely untrue that Cycorp never looks for investors. It is absolutely untrue that there is any significance to Cyc "asking" whether it is a human. I've seen claims on the Internet that Cyc has "self awareness." If you ask what they mean by this, I am sure that they will tell you something about "self knowledge." Of course, equating "self awareness" with "self knowledge" is the kind of bunk you will receive from one of the many self important charletans who write about intelligence as if they actually know what it is. If something is self aware, there ought to be something that it is like to BE that thing. There is nothing that could be called "what it is to be Cyc." Cyc is just another tax whore.
You should try Cyc yourself. You'll be amazed at how little it really knows.