Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 14th Jul 2006 22:32 UTC
Geek stuff, sci-fi... 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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RE: Wow.
by Ronald Vos on Sat 15th Jul 2006 08:54 UTC in reply to "Wow."
Ronald Vos
Member since:
2005-07-06

And here I thought everyone had given up on this dead end after Terry Winograd's rants in the 90s.

I can't find a link regarding this..what was the gist of it?

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RE[2]: Wow.
by Cloudy on Sat 15th Jul 2006 17:28 in reply to "RE: Wow."
Cloudy Member since:
2006-02-15

dimosd summed it up pretty well in replying to me: http://osnews.com/permalink.php?news_id=15194&comment_id=143183

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RE[3]: Wow.
by Ronald Vos on Sat 15th Jul 2006 20:11 in reply to "RE[2]: Wow."
Ronald Vos Member since:
2005-07-06

I now see that while I was searching someone posted that.

Can't believe someone found it necessary to vote me down however. It's not like it was off-topic. :|

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