necromantic<p><a href="https://yuxi-liu-wired.github.io/essays/posts/cyc/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">yuxi-liu-wired.github.io/essay</span><span class="invisible">s/posts/cyc/</span></a></p><p>this essay is about Cyc, a long time contender to the AGI throne (artificial general intelligence, the holy grail for AI slop scammers) that has its roots in the late 70s. but, more tellingly, it's about folks who get convinced that "true" thinking machines are just on the horizon, and that they can magically see the way forward that nobody else can, only to end in failure.</p><p>sounds familiar, don't it?</p><p><a href="https://kitty.town/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ai</span></a> <a href="https://kitty.town/tags/agi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>agi</span></a> <a href="https://kitty.town/tags/cyc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cyc</span></a></p>