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Ambitious Artificial Intelligence Project Operating In Near-Secrecy For 30 Years

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Re: Ambitious Artificial Intelligence Project Operating In Near-Secrecy For 30 Years

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Post by jfdixon »

X4 wrote: post #40
spyder wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Enough of this closed source, proprietary, snail's pace AI development. Eh? http://www.cyc.com/platform/opencyc Also: "Cycorp also offers a complete version of Cyc, including many more assertions and additional NL capabilities, under a ResearchCyc license at no cost for research purposes."

I used that during my BSc. Thesis, the non-free version includes data that is of higher precision and more useful for the military use. Which they have been building this for. It was used to answer questions regarding current threats and find out which other threats nobody has thought about could also occur, where, by whom etc. You can research that, if you want. But one thing is true, the information on them is scar…

A modified version of the Cyc inference engine was used in the initial development of LarKC[1].

[1] http://videolectures.net/coinactivess2010_witbrock_lkc/

Re: Ambitious Artificial Intelligence Project Operating In Near-Secrecy For 30 Years

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Post by p1esk »

chatmasta wrote: post #19

> "It's not done by any means, but it's useful." Is it? How do we know? You've been working on a product "in stealth" for 30 years, shown practically nobody outside your company, and provided us with nothing more than a vaporous description of its capabilities (in Businessinsider, no less). I'm left wondering not only how seriously I should be taking this claim, but also exactly what the claim even is. Artificial int…

I'm interested in an internship at Numenta. Can I ask you a few questions about it, if you don't mind? Either here or via an email?

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Post by savdi »

Human level artificial intelligence is a distance dream but can't say, virtual assistants like Google Now (http://www.google.com/landing/now/) and Braina (http://www.brainasoft.com/braina/) are already doing a decent job. May be we have to wait for 10 more years to achieve what is called AI-Complete or Strong AI.

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Post by curiousbiped »

p1esk wrote: post #42
chatmasta wrote: post #19

> "It's not done by any means, but it's useful." Is it? How do we know? You've been working on a product "in stealth" for 30 years, shown practically nobody outside your company, and provided us with nothing more than a vaporous description of its capabilities (in Businessinsider, no less). I'm left wondering not only how seriously I should be taking this claim, but also exactly what the claim even is. Artificial int…

I'm interested in an internship at Numenta. Can I ask you a few questions about it, if you don't mind? Either here or via an email?

I'm not directly involved with our intern program, but I work with the interns.

We're looking for intern candidates for Fall 2014. Details for how to apply are at http://numenta.com/company/#team.

If you'd like to talk with a current intern, email interns@numenta.com and the person running the program can give your contact info to the current group.

Re: Ambitious Artificial Intelligence Project Operating In Near-Secrecy For 30 Years

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Post by p1esk »

curiousbiped wrote: post #44
p1esk wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm interested in an internship at Numenta. Can I ask you a few questions about it, if you don't mind? Either here or via an email?

I'm not directly involved with our intern program, but I work with the interns. We're looking for intern candidates for Fall 2014. Details for how to apply are at http://numenta.com/company/#team . If you'd like to talk with a current intern, email interns@numenta.com and the person running the program can give your contact info to the current group.

Thanks, will do. If I may ask, what do you do there?

Re: Ambitious Artificial Intelligence Project Operating In Near-Secrecy For 30 Years

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Post by chazu »

This is pretty funny to me, because Cyc is actually a pretty high-profile project. Cursory searches on the topic of knowledge engineering return links to material on Cyc, not to mention that older AI textbooks mention Cyc as an example of a nascent large-scale knowledge engineering project.
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