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> The CYC project continued for decades with a massive team of people encoding rules according to it's own complex ontology, but ultimately never met it's goals
by brundolf 3y ago
> The CYC project continued for decades with a massive team of people encoding rules according to it's own complex ontology, but ultimately never met it's goals
It's still going! I agree it's become clear that it probably isn't the road to AGI, but it still employs people who are still encoding rules and making the inference engine faster, paying the bills mostly by doing contracts from companies that want someone to make sense of their data warehouses
- Taikonerd 3y agoIt is? Are there success stories of companies using Cyc? I always had the impression that Cycorp was sustained by government funding (especially military) -- and that, frankly, it was always premised more on what such software could theoretically do, rather than what it actually did.
- brundolf 3y agoThey did primarily government contracts for a long time, but when I was there (2016-2020) it was all private contracts The contracts at the time were mostly skunkworks/internal to the client companies, so not usually highly publicized. A couple examples are mentioned on their website: https://cyc.com/ https://cyc.com/
- isykt 3y agoThe user called catpolice worked there. Here’s a comment they made a few years back. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21783828 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21783828
- Taikonerd 3y agoThank you, this is really interesting.