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>>todsac+(OP)
> Lenat personally did not release the source code of his PhD project or EURISKO, remained unimpressed with open source, and disliked academia as much as academia disliked him. Most open information concerning Cyc had been deliberately removed circa 2015, at the moment when Cycorp pivoted to commercial applications.

Makes one wonder how much a research being open makes a difference in its real-world success in the current age. Cyc's competitors (LLMs etc.) arguably have a lot to attribute to open public participation for its successes. Perhaps things would have been difference had Lenat been more open with the project?

>>dartha+z4
Probably not, tbh. The issue with Cyc is that it required huge amounts of manual effort to create the rules, while LLMs can learn their own rules from raw data.

There was no machine intelligence in Cyc, just human intelligence.

>>Legend+a5
> There was no machine intelligence in Cyc, just human intelligence.

This can be rephrased for other "AI" projects with exactly the same relevance:

There is no machine intelligence in LLM bots, just human intelligence.