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>>iafish+(OP)
Cyc is one of those bad ideas that won't die, and which keeps getting rediscovered on HN. Lenat wasted decades of his life on it. Knowledge graphs like Cyc are labor intensive to build and difficult to maintain. They are brittle in the face of change, and useless if they cannot represent the underlying changes of reality.

>>blueye+Fp
Lenat was able to produce superhuman performing AI in the early 1980s [1].

[1] https://voidfarer.livejournal.com/623.html

You can label it "bad idea" but you can't bring LLMs back in time.

>>thesz+SB
Why didn't it ever have the impact that LLMs are having now? Or that DeepMind has had? Cyc didn't pass the Turing Test or become superhuman chess and go players. Yet it's had much more time to become successful.

>>goatlo+6Q
I guess it is funding. Compare funding of Google+Meta to what was/is available to Cyc.

Cyc was able to produce an impact, I keep pointing to MathCraft [1] which, at 2017, did not have a rival in the neural AI.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyc#MathCraft