From: Jeff Davis (jrd1415@yahoo.com)
Date: Sat Jun 08 2002 - 17:20:44 MDT
Am I human?
http://www.webfin.com/en/print/news/?id=19367
Cyc's job at Lycos was to make sense of ambiguous
search results. If a user entered "vets," Cyc would
ask whether he meant veterinarians or veterans and
then have appropriate follow-up questions.
Amusingly, the Lycos stint provided Cyc with an
adolescence, because it learned about sex-related
terms users typed into the search engine.
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