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>>_freu+(OP)
Been a while since I heard about my once-favorite project aiming to imitate common sense. I think I even contributed to its knowledge base a bit. Broken memory is unclear there. I loved that Lenat was one of the few to see (a) the need for common sense representation, (b) many people would need to train it, and (c) good algorithms to integrate it with other things. The part I strongly criticized was locking it up in proprietary fashion: worst thing you can do for stuff needing this much training data.

Good to see it's being commercialized... again? Swore he had a company. Anyway, probably the most valuable thing is the knowledge base they built. It was structured, curated, and very general. It would be great if AI researchers working on different architectures, including adaptive NN's, re-encoded and used that knowledge base. Might speed up training and catch blind spots w/ common sense checks.

Note to other researchers: it would be worth the effort to re-create a similar knowledge base more open to public but with careful moderations. Make sure the knowledge base and decent engine are open source. Gotta be for best results here.

>>nickps+9h
It seems terrible that such a project would lock up all that knowledge in a proprietary form.

Fortunately, my scan of their website seems to indicate they have released their ontologies, their under a creative commons license.

http://www.cyc.com/platform/opencyc/ http://www.cyc.com/documentation/opencyc-license/

>>joe_th+Pq
OpenCyc is only a fraction of the ontology, unfortunately. There's a lot of internal desire to update and expand OpenCyc, but my understanding is that at present the company hasn't secured funding that they're really allowed to use for that purpose.