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Re:Yahoo Embraces The Semantic Web - Expect The Internet To ... by Kaizyn on Thursday March 13, 2008 @04:14PM (#136244)
They've been working on Cyc for about 20 years or more. If it were a worthwhile direction to take AI in, it would have yielded results by now.
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Re:Yahoo Embraces The Semantic Web - Expect The Internet To ... by pius on Thursday March 13, 2008 @04:19PM (#136248)
I hear you, but I'd be hard pressed to say that making all common sense knowledge machine readable is not a worthwhile direction.
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Re:Yahoo Embraces The Semantic Web - Expect The Internet To ... by henning on Thursday March 13, 2008 @05:49PM (#136318)
I'd be happy to make such a claim, and many people much smarter than I am would as well.

Common sense reasoning is a dead end IMO.

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Re:Yahoo Embraces The Semantic Web - Expect The Internet To ... by brent on Friday March 14, 2008 @12:09AM (#136551)
Are they yielding reasonable results in micro-domains right now? Like specifically terrorism-related defense?
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