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Researchers come ever closer to teaching common sense to Cyc, the thinking computer. In 1986 Cyc asked whether it was human. That same year it asked whether any other computers were engaged in such a project. Shades of Douglas Adams‘ Deep Thought.

Author KcMPosted on June 10, 2002March 6, 2013Categories AI, Arts and Letters, Douglas Adams, ScienceTags AI, Cyc, Douglas Adams

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