42 years after Cyc: the 1984 quest to encode human common sense still haunts AI
vishalmisra · x · 2026-10-14
vishalmisra recounts a coffee chat with Ramanathan Guha, a builder of Cyc—the 1984 attempt to encode all human common sense into a computer. Forty-two years later, AI is still hunting for that missing ingredient. His kicker: "History doesn't repeat itself, but it finetunes."
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