Cyc does not work. At least not yet. I haven’t really looked into it a lot, but I expect that it will also not work in the near future for anything like doing a pivotal act. And they got a lot of man-hours put into it. In principle, it could probably succeed with enough data input, but it is not practical. Also, it would not succeed if you don’t have the right inference algorithms, and I guess that would be hard to notice when you are distracted entering all the data. Because you can just never stop entering the data, as there is so much of it to enter.
> Cyc does not work. What if the group of users adding knowledge was significantly larger than the Cyc team?.
Edit: I ask because CyC is built by a group of its employees, it is not crowdsourced. Crowdsourcing often involves a much larger group of people, like in Wikipedia.
> In principle, it could probably succeed with enough data input, but it is not practical. Why is it not practical?
> that would be hard to notice What do you mean by “to notice” here?
Cyc does not seem like the things that I would expect to work very well compared to a system that can build the world model from scratch because even if it is crowd sourced it would take to much effort.
I mean notice that the inference algorithms are too bad, to make the system capable enough. You can still increase the capability of the system very slowly, by just adding more data. So it seems easy to instead of fixing the inference, to just focus on adding more data, which is the wrong move in that situation.
Cyc does not work. At least not yet. I haven’t really looked into it a lot, but I expect that it will also not work in the near future for anything like doing a pivotal act. And they got a lot of man-hours put into it. In principle, it could probably succeed with enough data input, but it is not practical. Also, it would not succeed if you don’t have the right inference algorithms, and I guess that would be hard to notice when you are distracted entering all the data. Because you can just never stop entering the data, as there is so much of it to enter.
> Cyc does not work.
What if the group of users adding knowledge was significantly larger than the Cyc team?.
Edit: I ask because CyC is built by a group of its employees, it is not crowdsourced. Crowdsourcing often involves a much larger group of people, like in Wikipedia.
> In principle, it could probably succeed with enough data input, but it is not practical.
Why is it not practical?
> that would be hard to notice
What do you mean by “to notice” here?
Cyc does not seem like the things that I would expect to work very well compared to a system that can build the world model from scratch because even if it is crowd sourced it would take to much effort.
I mean notice that the inference algorithms are too bad, to make the system capable enough. You can still increase the capability of the system very slowly, by just adding more data. So it seems easy to instead of fixing the inference, to just focus on adding more data, which is the wrong move in that situation.