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lonelappde on Dec 14, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Cyc

Cyc uses a dead-end 1980s concept of AGI (expert system ruleset) that led to the AI winter.

ma2rten on Dec 14, 2019 [–]

Neural networks also led to the AI winter. It wasn't until we had enough compute power that neural networks become popular again.

Some people think that reasoning is the same. If we had a database of enough common sense facts there would be a tipping point were it becomes useful.

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