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In a previous article, YLIKOSKI@FINFUN.BITNET writes:
}Thus, it would seem that in order for us to see true commonsense
}knowledge exhibited by a program we need:
}
}        * a vast amount of knowledge involving the world of a person
}          in virtual memory.  The knowledge involves gardening,
}          Buddhism, the emotions of an ordinary person and so forth -
}          its amount might equal a good encyclopaedia.

Actually, it would probably put the combined text of several good encyclopedias
to shame.  Even encyclopedias and dictionaries leave out a lot of "common-sense"
information.

The CYC project at MCC is a 10-year undertaking to build a large knowledge 
base of real world facts, heuristics, and methods for reasoning over the 
knowledge base.[1]  The current phase of the project is to carefully represent 
400 articles from a one-volume encyclopedia.  They expect their system to 
contain about 10,000 frames once they've encoded the 400 articles, about half 
of them common-sense concepts.


[1] CYC: Using Common Sense Knowledge to Overcome Brittleness and Knowledge 
Acquisition Bottlenecks, AI Magazine v6 #4.

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