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Kaizyn
on March 13, 2008
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Yahoo Embraces The Semantic Web - Expect The Inter...
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.
pius
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I hear you, but I'd be hard pressed to say that making all common sense knowledge machine readable is not a worthwhile direction.
henning
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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.
brent
on March 14, 2008
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Are they yielding reasonable results in micro-domains right now? Like specifically terrorism-related defense?
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