The book under review here, Building Large Knowledge-Based Systems: Representation and Inference in the Cyc Project, describes progress so far in an attempt to build a system that is intended to exhibit general common-sense reasoning ability. This review first discusses aspects of the Cyc system, wi
Building large knowledge-based systems: Representation and inference in the cyc project: D.B. Lenat and R.V. Guha
โ Scribed by Douglas Skuce
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1993
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 795 KB
- Volume
- 61
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0004-3702
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The Cyc project, and this book, are based on two premises: ( 1 ) that what is holding AI back is programs' lack of explicitly represented knowledge; and (2) that the time is ripe to fix the problem by encoding large chunks of it. The project aims to verify (2) by the most forthright means possible,
## Top-level reactions The Cyc Project is a monumental experiment in building very large knowledge-based systems. The book caused me to think a lot about how such research is done and what will be required to someday apply it. In this review, I want to focus on four issues derived from those conce