I was visiting MCC during the startup phase and Bobby Inman spent a little time with me. He had just hired Doug Lenat, but Lenat was not there yet. Inman was very excited to be having Lenat on board. (Inman was on my board of directors and furnished me with much of my IR&D funding for several years.)
From an outsider’s perspective, I thought that the business strategy of Open Cyc made sense, because many of us outside the company had the opportunity to experiment with it. I still have backups of the last released version, plus the RDF/OWL releases.
Personally, I think we are far from achieving AGI. We need some theoretical breakthroughs (I would bet on hybrid symbolic, deep learning, and probabilistic graph models). We have far to go, but as the Buddha said, enjoy the journey.
I was visiting MCC during the startup phase and Bobby Inman spent a little time with me. He had just hired Doug Lenat, but Lenat was not there yet. Inman was very excited to be having Lenat on board. (Inman was on my board of directors and furnished me with much of my IR&D funding for several years.)
From an outsider’s perspective, I thought that the business strategy of Open Cyc made sense, because many of us outside the company had the opportunity to experiment with it. I still have backups of the last released version, plus the RDF/OWL releases.
Personally, I think we are far from achieving AGI. We need some theoretical breakthroughs (I would bet on hybrid symbolic, deep learning, and probabilistic graph models). We have far to go, but as the Buddha said, enjoy the journey.