In 1986 I met Doug Lenat as he was just beginning the Cyc project. He had a daring and bold vision that is yet to be realized. However, the knowledge base developed over the past 20 years is probably the most comprehensive available and now that the full Cyc knowledge base is available, it’s the perfect foundation for building some exciting projects.
Cyc is one of the most notorious projects in artificial intelligence. Now spanning for over 20 years it has yet to deliver on initial promise of human-reasoning capabilities. While initial goals were too ambitious, we should still be quite happy with the achievements. Especially now when it seems Cycorp (owner of Cyc) is seeing the potential in opening up its knowledge base to third party developers. Yesterday OpenCyc was released under CreativeCommons 3!Zemanta Official Blog, Aug 2008
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