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The Bootstrap Dialog System is the key deliverable for the Texai project this year. Its use case is described this previous comment. Although this application could be written without fitting into an Albus Hierarchical Control System, I chose to do so because eventually that is the Texai architecture, and spending the extra effort now will avoid a subsequent rewrite and greatly facilitate system elaboration. Continue Reading »

This post is by request from Joe Simone, who is active in the OpenMind project.

Joe asks:

Is Cyc destined for failure? Are we even close to bootstrapping AI such that it can learn from dialog?

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On the SourceForge project site, I just released the Java library for Incremental Fluid Construction Grammar.

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As we close 2007, it is a good time to review this year’s project milestones on the path to creating artificial intelligence.

• In January 2007, I released a KB Reference Manual describing the then current MySQL KB implementation. At that time the preliminary merge of the OpenCyc content, with WordNet, and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary was complete and the KB grew to over 10 million statements.
• My paper, Semantic Annotation for Persistence was accepted for publication at the AAAI-07 Workshop for Semantic E-Science in Vancouver, Canada.
• In February 2007, I completed the extraction of structured content from the Wiktionary English Lexicon, which increased the MySQL KB to approximately 15 million statements. Continue Reading »