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From: jim@se-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Jim Ruehlin, Cognitologist domesticus)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Doug Lenat's "cyc" project
Message-ID: <3611@se-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM>
Date: 31 Jul 90 15:47:26 GMT
References: <1990Jul31.034417.19350@nixtdc.uucp>
Organization: NCR Corporation, Systems Engineering - San Diego
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In article <1990Jul31.034417.19350@nixtdc.uucp> doug@nixtdc.UUCP (Doug Moen) writes:
>Does anyone familiar with "cyc" want to comment?
>My feeling is that someone is going to build an artificial
>mind sooner or later, and cyc is a plausible first step.

I heard a short presentation from the head of MCC about CYC (MCC is the
company/research consortium in Austin, TX building CYC).  It didn't sound
to me like an "intelligence", but an expert system (written in LISP) that
contained vast amounts of common-sense knowledge about the world.  This
includes all that interrelated stuff that has made it so hard to make
expert systems, etc., understand what a normal human is talking about.

By the way, where can I get a copy of the "Hackers Dictionary"??

- Jim Ruehlin