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Monday, June 10, 2002
http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/ptech/06/09/common.sense.computer.ap/index.html Can a PC think for itself? Cyc may one day provide common-sense computing Day after day since 1984, teams of programmers, linguists, theologians, mathematicians and philosophers have plugged away at a $60 million project they hope will transform human existence: teaching a computer common sense. They have been feeding a database named Cyc 1.4 million truths and generalities about daily life so it can automatically make assumptions humans make: Creatures that die stay dead. Dogs have spines. Scaling a cliff requires intense physical effort....
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