Curiouser and Curiouser! on ai http://matt.blogs.it/ RSS feed for topic ai Copyright 2006 Matt Mower Squib/0.1 self@mattmower.com self@mattmower.com en-gb Machines that know that the fur is on the outside Wed, 15 Jun 2005 09:41:30 +0100 <p>Graham Glass is <a href="http://grahamglass.blogs.com/main/2005/06/thoughts_on_mac.html">pondering</a> Googles plans for machine learning based translation. But wonders how knowing that "cat", "chat", and "katze" are the same thing will help it know they are cute, furry, animals. He ponders linking to WikiPedia as a kind of subject matter database.</p> <p>You could do that, or you could link to the <a href="http://www.cyc.com/cyc/technology/whatiscyc_dir/whatsincyc">Cyc knowledgebase</a>. I don't know the scope of Cyc but it's little brother <a href="http://www.opencyc.com/">OpenCyc</a> contains 47,000 concepts and 306,000 assertions which link them. They define this as <em>an upper ontology whose domain is all of human consensus reality.</em></p> http://matt.blogs.it/entries/00002666.html Another reason to love Ruby Fri, 23 Sep 2005 11:16:55 +0100 <p><a href="http://www.geocities.com/ben_bongalon/rubycon/">RubyCon</a> is a toolkit for building concept processing and other intelligent reasoning systems. A brief glance suggests similarities with <a href="http://www.cyc.com/">Cyc</a> which I have looked at before.</p> <p>An interesting comparison is that RubyCon claims 170,000 concepts whilst <a href="http://www.opencyc.org/">OpenCyc</a> (Cyc's open source cousin) claims 36,000. I wonder whether I'm comparing apples with apples and what the significance is?</p> <p>Well, whatever, RubyCon looks very interesting and the Ruby interface is a compelling feature.</p> http://matt.blogs.it/entries/00002924.html