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>>todsac+(OP)
> Cyc grew to contain approximately 30 million assertions at a cost of $200 million and 2,000 person-years. Yet despite Lenat’s repeated predictions of imminent breakthrough, it never came.

That seems like pretty small potatoes compared to how much has been spent on LLMs these days.

Or to put it another way: if global funding for LLM development had been capped at $200m, how many of them would even exist?

>>mcphag+Cd
> That seems like pretty small potatoes compared to how much has been spent on LLMs these days.

It seems to be a pretty high cost, at more than $6 per assertion. Wikidata - the closest thing we have to a "backbone for the Semantic Web" right now - contains around 1.6G bare assertions describing 115M real-world entities, and that's a purely volunteer project.