We shouldn’t try to build a worse version of a human. We should try to build a better compiler and encyclopedia.
We tried that. It was called Cyc. It never got even close to the level of capabilities a modern LLM has in an agentic harness — even on common sense and reasoning problems!
That sounds like a "get wealthy slowly" plan, while the LLM prophets are more focused on "get rich quick".
We tried that. It was called Cyc. It never got even close to the level of capabilities a modern LLM has in an agentic harness — even on common sense and reasoning problems!