Comment by Animats
1 year ago
Cyc is going great, according to the web site. "The Next Generation of Enterprise AI"[1]
Lenat himself died in 2023. Despite this, he is listed as the only member of the "leadership team".[2]
[1] https://cyc.com/
1 year ago
Cyc is going great, according to the web site. "The Next Generation of Enterprise AI"[1]
Lenat himself died in 2023. Despite this, he is listed as the only member of the "leadership team".[2]
[1] https://cyc.com/
A sad epitaph
I’m very glad he tried, even if he only proved that it was impossible
He didn't prove any such thing.
Especially if you consider using a SOTA LLM to recreate and expand ResearchCyc (for fun and not profit)
Maybe Cyc was a success and Lenat lives on as it's consciousness?
Dead is dead. And even if Cyc had consciousness--which it doesn't--it certainly wouldn't have his consciousness.
It's an interesting thought experiment / philosophy / sci fi story premise though; if he spent all those years encoding his own thought processes and decision making into a program, would he have been able to create a convincing facsimile of himself and his "consciousness"? A turing test with a chatbot based on decades of self-reflection.
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