On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 7:55 PM, Ben Goertzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Cyc's DB is not publicly modifiable, but it's **huge** ... big enough that
> its bulk would take others a really long time to replicate

A competent AGI should be able to "absorb" Cyc's knowledge, and I will
probably do so (unless it turns out to be very difficult).  If the Cyc
KB is in FOL purely, it should be relatively easy.

> Why don't you find out if you can do anything interesting w/ Cyc's existing
> **publicly available** DB, before setting about making your own.  You may
> find out, just like Cyc has, that possessing such a DB doesn't really get
> you anywhere in terms of creating AGI ... or even in terms of creating
> surpassingly useful narrow-AI systems...

I'm building a prototype AGI now, and will give it a very small test
KB so it can parse some simple sentences and do some inferences.

The next step would be to absorb Cyc's KB and then let online users expand it.

Also, I will provide some learning algorithms to be used in
conjunction with user inputs -- for example, users can give examples
of reasoning in NL, and the AGI will learn the logical rules from
those examples.

This seems to me to be the right way towards AGI...

YKY


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