Seems to me that anything we call “common sense” may sound simple but represents a massive hairball of knowledge. For example, if I ask for some water, it’s common sense that you put it a glass first. But what is the nature of water and gravity that make this so?https://twitter.com/alanmackworth/status/971540778676731904 …
Our representation of water and its relationship to glasses are not sets of structured properties, but generative functions. I think that Minsky and Schank got that one wrong, and so their attempts of dealing with commonsense knowledge were doomed.
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And this, I think, is where Cyc has gone off the rails.
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But I also believe that Cyc was an important and insightful project.
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