From: Brian D Williams (talon57@well.com)
Date: Thu Jun 21 2001 - 07:41:37 MDT
>From: Eugene Leitl <Eugene.Leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de>
>"HAL killed the ['2001'] crew because it had been told not to lie
>to them, but also to lie to them about the mission," he observes.
>"No one ever told HAL that killing is worse than lying. But we've
>told Cyc."
I've always thought this project was fascinating, and I'm delighted
to see they're making interesting progress.
Probably the best part was the revelation that they are going to
make a large portion of the inference base public (OPENCYC) and
therefore available to others who are interested.
The timing of the release with the movie A.I. is interesting, I can
hear the luddites screaming already.....
Brian
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