Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 14th Jul 2006 22:32 UTC
OpenCyc is the open source version of the Cyc technology, the world's largest and most complete general knowledge base and commonsense reasoning engine. OpenCyc can be used as the basis for a wide variety of intelligent applications. This is release 1.0 of OpenCyc featuring the complete Cyc ontology of over 260,000 terms and their definitional assertions numbering over 1.8 million. OpenCyc requires about 500MB of disk space and performs best with over 512 MB RAM. One GB of RAM is recommended for Cyc when accessed by Java applications.
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2006-03-18
Ha, sounds like my experience with basic. I knew about loops, and goto, but had no clue what that darned 'gosub' did. So before I'd call 'goto', I'd set a flag indicating where I was calling from, and then for my 'return' I'd test the flag to figure out where to 'goto' back to.
Back on topic, I thought Cyc's makers had a number of commercial customers for their product. Granted it's not full AI, but the ability to make automated inferences from large sets of data might be attractive to certain companies.