Well, Lenat survives... But he paid people to build his database (Cyc)
What's depressing is trying to get folks to build a commonsense KB for free ... then you get confronted with the absolute stupidity of what they enter, and the poverty and repetitiveness of their senses of humor... ;-p ben On Jan 19, 2008 4:42 PM, Eliezer S. Yudkowsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/16-02/ff_aimystery?currentPage=all > > I guess the moral here is "Stay away from attempts to hand-program a > database of common-sense assertions." > > -- > Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/ > Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence > > ----- > 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/?&; > -- Ben Goertzel, PhD CEO, Novamente LLC and Biomind LLC Director of Research, SIAI [EMAIL PROTECTED] "We are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth." -- Vernor Vinge ----- 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=87836600-bf128b
