Ambitious Artificial Intelligence Project Operating In Near-Secrecy For 30 Years

Re:Ambitious Artificial Intelligence Project Operating In Ne... by cwhy on Wednesday July 02, 2014 @08:28PM (#7980722)

Low profile? Really? Or still in the winter of the old AI? Cyc more like hardcoded more than "taught" as stated in the article.

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Re:Ambitious Artificial Intelligence Project Operating In Ne... by gnudon on Wednesday July 02, 2014 @08:33PM (#7980752)

Agreed. Cyc is far from low profile. It was in Omni magazine back in the day - and it's a common example of (problematic) GOFAI approaches.

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Re:Ambitious Artificial Intelligence Project Operating In Ne... by zenbowman on Wednesday July 02, 2014 @10:07PM (#7981073)

Yeah it is hardly low profile. It was a very well funded project that promised the moon and failed to deliver despite absorbing a massive amount of DoD money. A lot of AI researchers at the lab I worked at weren't big fans as there was the sense that Cyc was a shining example of how money spent on symbolic AI was just wasted.

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Re:Ambitious Artificial Intelligence Project Operating In Ne... by dllthomas on Wednesday July 02, 2014 @09:48PM (#7981029)

Presuming they've actually been diligently working away, it makes an interesting test of the "we just haven't done it hard enough" hypothesis.

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Re:Ambitious Artificial Intelligence Project Operating In Ne... by rosser on Wednesday July 02, 2014 @09:07PM (#7980884)

Not really, no. I remember talking about Cyc in my AI classes in university, and I graduated in '97.

Then again, Business Insider...

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Re:Ambitious Artificial Intelligence Project Operating In Ne... by ganeumann on Wednesday July 02, 2014 @09:46PM (#7981025)

By "near secrecy" they mean "hasn't hired a PR firm."

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