Cyc

Cyc is an artificial intelligence project that attempts to assemble a comprehensive ontology and database of everyday common sense knowledge, with the goal of enabling AI applications to perform human-like reasoning.

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In the absence of a learning machine that can acquire common sense facts on its own, there would seem to be only one option left. That is, manually programming in the millions of general knowledge items that we take entirely for granted.

The Cyc Project
Representing & Using Common Sense Knoweldge
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Cyc, an attempt to assemble an ontology and database of everyday knowledge, enabling human-like reasoning.

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A CYC entity is not necessarily limited to one word; often it represents a group of words, or a concept. Look at this example taken from the CYC KB:
;;; #$Food-ReadyToEat ...

Lenat, Douglas. "CYC: A Large-Scale Investment in Knowledge Infrastructure." Communications of the ACM 38 (1995): 33-38.
Minsky, Marvin. The Society of Mind. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1986.

Doug Lenat took up the challenge and created Cyc, a program named after the word encyclopedia .

CYC FAQ
DAML: DARPA Agent Markup Language
EG3 "largest online free resource in electronics"
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Institute for Information Technology, National Research Council of Canada's AI Links ...

However, I would hope that there will be very large knowledge bases in the future, somewhat along the lines being pioneered by the CYC project.

While there has been considerable progress, e.g. in developing systems of non-monotonic reasoning and theories of action, yet more new ideas are needed. The Cyc system contains a large but spotty collection of common sense facts.

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