Re: IP: Birth of a Thinking Machine

From: Franklin Wayne Poley (culturex@vcn.bc.ca)
Date: Thu Jun 21 2001 - 16:24:32 MDT


On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Brian D Williams wrote:

> 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.

All I could get from
<http://www.latimes.com/business/cutting/lat_cyc010621.htm> was that
OpenCyc will be a search engine which will give answers to questions in
the domain of common sense or common, every day sorts of knowledge, such
as "Can people run?" or "How big is the Earth?" Is that correct?
Also this search engine will be designed so that it can accept questions
in natural language.

FWP



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