Matt, I agree w/ your question...
I actually think KB's can be useful in principle, but I think they need to be developed in a pragmatic way, i.e. where each item of knowledge added can be validated via how useful it is for helping a functional intelligent agent to achieve some interesting goals... ben g > > What would you do with the knowledge base after you build it? I know this > sounds like a dumb question, but Cyc has built a huge base of common sense > knowledge in a structured format, but it isn't useful for anything. Of course > that is not the result they anticipated. How will you avoid the same type of > (very expensive) failure? What type of knowledge will it contain? > > > -- Matt Mahoney, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ----- > This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email > To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: > http://v2.listbox.com/member/?& > ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=80324636-31670d