Re: [opencog-dev] What CYC has done wrong

2016-08-16 Thread Linas Vepstas
So, ... the final analysis of what it did wrong is something else that it did wrong? Sigh. --linas On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 3:38 PM, Ben Goertzel wrote: > He's focusing on micro-level things they did wrong, but not > confronting the possibility that making a huge handcoded KB is just > the wr

Re: [opencog-dev] What CYC has done wrong

2016-08-16 Thread Ben Goertzel
He's focusing on micro-level things they did wrong, but not confronting the possibility that making a huge handcoded KB is just the wrong thing to be doing... For instance he notes they have had to add 75 kinds of "in" to handle different sorts of "in" relationship ... but doesn't question whether

[opencog-dev] What CYC has done wrong

2016-08-16 Thread Linas Vepstas
The below is an old presentation, from 2009, but its the first I've seen of it. Its long, I have not read it yet. However, I suspect that it probably says good things (I hope; else that would be something else that CYC did wrong...) http://c4i.gmu.edu/oic09/papers/Mistakes%20Were%20Made%20OIC%2