Who still remembers Cyc, the mid-80s symbolic AI knowledge project?
vishalmisra · x · 2026-10-14
A post on X asks how many people know about Cyc, the AI project from the mid-1980s — Douglas Lenat's decades-long attempt to hand-code common-sense knowledge for symbolic AI, a piece of AI history many in today's LLM era have never encountered.
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