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From: whitten@netcom.com (David Whitten)
Subject: Re: What is Cyc? (was Re: CYC and I-F)
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Date: Wed, 3 Aug 1994 18:16:02 GMT
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Erik asked What is CYC ?

boy is that an open ended question.

D. Lenat is head of a group in Austin Texas that is attempting to
record the 'common sense' knowledge of the average 20th Century
American citizen in a computer.

He estimates (at one writing) that he is talking about 10^8 facts.

This is not including the relationships between the facts, but just the
different fact-ideas that are 'commonly known'

This includes everything from horses have four legs to the fact that twins
are the same age.

Who knows if he can do it?

On a related note, the mailing list wisdom@mcs.com is trying to lay the
ground work to create a mini-CYC that handles the subdomain of I-F....

:)

David Whitten (whitten@netcom.com) (214) 437-5255

