Comment by astrange
2 years ago
I have a vague memory in the 90s of a website that was trying to collect crowdsourced somewhat-structured facts about everything that would be used to build GOFAI.
Was trying to find it the other day and AI searches suggested Cyc; I feel like that's not it, but maybe it was? (It definitely wasn't Everything2.)
It might have been one of these two projects
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Mind_Common_Sense
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindpixel
The leaders of both these projects committed suicide.
GAC! Yeah, it was Mindpixel.
I guess that's what happens when you learn too many facts.
Portland Pattern Repository?
<https://c2.com/ppr/>
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland_Pattern_Repository>