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Oh I never said it'd be useful HERE...besides the fact, with an AI like that already set up, most of a user's "programming" would consist of giving various emotional weights to subjects and that'd get boring fast.

::drools at the thought of 7 terabytes::
::shudders at the thought of trying to fill 7 terabytes on 56k::

zx20,

I've heard about Cyc. Was that project at all successful?

::shudders at the thought of filling 100GB on 56k::

What is this "Cyc" you speak of?

Years ago, a team of people was working on a program called Cyc, educating it about basic world knowledge that we take for granted--even form new associations based on its past knowledge. Last I'd heard, they'd got it up to about the level of a human 4-year-old.

Cyc wasn't designed with a lot of specific responses in mind, but mostly processing. The idea was to have as close to actual thought as possible. Example: Cyc was told that someone named Mary Shepherd liked it, and based on its knowledge that similar things/people tended to like each other, it asked "Am I a person? Or is Mary Shepherd a computer program?"

Now you've got me wondering too, so I'm going to look it up.

Duh. www.cyc.com

Btw, Cyc pronuces as "psych".

Wow, how very, very Steven Spielberg.

After just seeing Minority Report, I ain't giving Spielberg that much credit.

I just found the winner of next year's ChatterBox Challenge:

http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/infolab/

It cant talk, but it can answer every question the Judges could throw at it, and that would probably score it the victory. I say this with a tad of bitterness, yes.

It'd be amazing to integrate that knowledge with our AI here. But I dont think it's Open Source.