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They've been working on Cyc for about 20 years or more. If it were a worthwhile direction to take AI in, it would have yielded results by now.


I hear you, but I'd be hard pressed to say that making all common sense knowledge machine readable is not a worthwhile direction.


I'd be happy to make such a claim, and many people much smarter than I am would as well.

Common sense reasoning is a dead end IMO.


Are they yielding reasonable results in micro-domains right now? Like specifically terrorism-related defense?




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