Cyc had potential and its still being used by some people, but its mainly dead now. I have been dreaming of a cyc 2.0 for a while, I did a tiny mvp here a while ago:
https://concepts.jtoy.net/
My point in adding to the Marcus thread was that a problem of "common sense" in AI was identified in the last century, before Marcus had made any pronouncements about it.
Cyc had potential and its still being used by some people, but its mainly dead now. I have been dreaming of a cyc 2.0 for a while, I did a tiny mvp here a while ago: https://concepts.jtoy.net/
I recently wrote a review on Cyc as well : https://blog.jtoy.net/understanding-cyc-the-ai-database/
My point in adding to the Marcus thread was that a problem of "common sense" in AI was identified in the last century, before Marcus had made any pronouncements about it.