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Friday, June 22, 2001
http://www.latimes.com/business/cutting/lat_cyc010621.htm Birth of a Thinking Machine For 17 years, a team has been trying to develop the most sophisticated artificial intelligence system ever. This summer, the public will be able to see its work. By MICHAEL A. HILTZIK, Times Staff Writer AUSTIN, Texas--Popular culture has long held strong opinions about what the world's smartest machine should look like. There's the unblinking red eye of HAL, the brilliant, homicidal computer of Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey"; the gilded humanoids of pulp sci-fi; and the flashing lights and gleaming boxes of countless doomsday scenarios. But it's a safe bet that nobody has imagined artificial intelligence the way it is taking shape inside a low-slung brown brick building hidden deep within a leafy research park north of town. Yet here beats the heart of the system known as Cyc....
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