Computerizing Common Sense
Austin, Texas based Cycorp Inc. is building the Cyc Knowledge Base which codifies 3 million rules of thumb that the average person knows about the world, plus about 300,000 terms or concepts. For example, “If you are carrying a container that’s open on one side, you should carry it with the open end up.” The only current application is CycSecure, a network security scanning process that uses its planning ability and knowledge of the world to come up with network attack plans. The really cool news is that Cyc is also building an open source version of the Cyc technology called OpenCyc, which will be used for a variety of intelligent applications including speech understanding, database integration and rapid development of an ontology in a vertical area just to name a few.
(via Computerworld)
- 10 Apr 02
- artificial intelligence, decision making, technology
