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>>andyjo+(OP)
I wonder if CYC would have had more success if it was open and collaborative. WikiData seems like a successful cousin. I know the goals are a quite different - wikidata doesn't really store "common sense" knowledge, but it seems any rule-based AI system would probably want to use wikidata as a database of facts.

>>ks2048+Ej1
> wikidata doesn't really store "common sense" knowledge

They're actively working on this, with the goal of ultimately building a language-independent representation[0] of ordinary encyclopedic text. Much like a machine translation interlanguage, but something that would be mostly authored by humans, not auto-generated from existing natural-language text. See https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Wikipedia for more information.

[0] Of course, there are some very well-known pitfalls to this general idea: what's the true, canonical language-independent representation of nimium saepe valedīxit? So this should probably be understood as mostly language-independent, enough to be practically useful.