Cade Metz’s NYTimes article on Doug Lenat, featuring quote from Ken Forbus and @garymarcus. The connection between the game Traveller and #Cyc is interesting and is new to me.

Douglas Lenat, Who Tried to Make Computers More Human, Dies at 72 https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/04/technology/douglas-lenat-dead.html

#AI #GOFAI #Reasoning #Commonsense #Knowledge

This was an EXTREMELY interesting paper on what modern LLMs can learn from older older symbolic AI / expert system approaches to improve the validity of what those statistical models generate on their own, using the Cyc system as the contrast to the modern systems.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.04445

#Cyc #DougLenat #SymbolicAI #ExpertSystems #LLMs #ChatGPT #Bard #AI #KnowledgeRepresentation

Doug Lenat died. RIP. #cyc #lispm #lispmachines #ai #commonlisp #cycorp

He started the Cyc project, using Lisp Machines as a development environment. The project is roughly since 40 years ongoing. Cyc was the dream of a large-scale knowledge base of common sense knowledge. One that has many ways of reasoning and making inferences. It used SubL a variant of Common Lisp.

Here is an old screen shot...

Dog Lenat, founder of #Cyc, passed away earlier this week. From Professor Ken Forbus:

"People in AI often don't give the Cyc project the respect it deserves. Whether or not you agree with an approach, understanding what has happened in different lines of work is important. The Cyc project was the first demonstration that symbolic representations and reasoning could scale to capture significant portions of commonsense…”

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/forbus_ai-knowledgegraphs-krr-activity-7103445990954700800-qcd-

#ai #knowledgegraphs #Reasoning #NLP #NLProc

Getting from generative AI to trustworthy AI: What LLMs might learn from Cyc. ~ Doug Lenat, Gary Marcus. https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.04445 #GenerativeAI #AI #LLMs #Cyc

RT @IJCAIconf
The 1977 IJCAI Computer and Thoughts Award went to Douglas Lenat #cyc 👇 For his latest interview check out the @lexfridman link below.

🚨 #Call for IJCAI-23 Awards is open and awaiting your input👉 https://www.ijcai.org/awards

#IJCAI2023

#reasoning #symbolic #ML #explainableAI https://twitter.com/lexfridman/status/1438182402942197774

Connecting #ChatGPT to #WolframAlpha (as Stephen Wolfram proposed earlier), and then to Matlab's #Simulink, will blow all our freaking minds.

Then give it #Cyc's ontologies as well as other MAS (multi-agent simulation) capabilities we'll see a boon in scientific computing like we've never seen before.

With all this talk of #AI, I often wonder whatever happened to #Cyc.

OpenCyc seems to have been mothballed.

The full-blown Cyc project (assuming that's what this is, still) now seems to be selling itself as, like, AIaaS to giant corporations (and nobody else) -- with what degree of success, I know not.