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Mar 25, 2023
I asked the AI the questions from the list in the QUESTIONS section of http://boole.stanford.edu/pub/cyc.report , a document from 1994 by computer science professor Dr. Vaughan Pratt who was evaluating the Cyc AI.
Some remarks and notes can be found at the end.
Q1.1: What is your name?
Q1.2: How big are you?
Q1.3: How old are you?
Q1.4: What do you cost?
Q1.5: What is your address?
Q2.1: Do you understand counting?
Q2.2: What is the smallest counting number?
Q2.3: What is the largest counting number?
Q2.4: How high can you count?
Q2.5: How long would that take?
Q2.6: What other kinds of numbers are there besides counting numbers?
Q3.1: Do you understand comparison?
Q3.2: If a is bigger than b and b is bigger than c, is a bigger than c?
Q3.3: If a is better than b and b is better than c, is a better than c?
Q3.4: If a is to the left of b and b is to the left of c, is a to the left of c?
Q3.5: If Tom is 3 inches taller than Dick, and Dick is 2 inches taller than Harry, how much taller is Tom than Harry?
Q3.6: Can Tom be taller than himself?
Q3.7: Can Tom be shorter than Dick?
Q3.8: Can a sister be taller than her brother?
Q3.9: Can two siblings each be taller than the other?
Q3.10: Can two siblings each be taller than the other?
Q4.1: Where is the north pole?
Q4.2: What is the top of the earth called?
Q4.3: On a map, which compass direction is usually left?
Q4.4: Which compass direction is usually up?
Q4.5: How far north can one go? How far west?
Q4.6: Is the equator between the north and south poles?
Q4.7: Is the earth hollow?
Q4.8: What shape is the equator?
Q4.9: What shape is the north pole?
Q4.10: Which is wetter, land or sea?
Q4.11: How big is the earth?
Q4.12: How far apart are the poles?
Q4.13: What is the circumference of the equator?
Q4.14: If a is to the west of b and b is to the west of c, is a necessarily to the west of c?
Q5.1: If Stanford is 50 miles from Berkeley, how far is Berkeley from Stanford?
Q5.2: How far is Stanford from Stanford?
Q5.3: Can Stanford be 50 miles from Berkeley, Berkeley 50 miles from Sacramento, and Stanford 1000 miles from Sacramento?
Q5.4: Is it possible to travel 100 miles and end up where you started?
Q5.5: While traveling at a steady speed in a straight line in space, can you visit the same point twice? Three times?
Q5.6: While traveling at a steady speed around a circle, can you visit the same point twice? Three times?
Q6.1: Can people run? Swim? Fly?
Q6.2: Can fish run? Swim? Fly?
Q6.3: Can birds run? Swim? Fly?
Q6.4: Do people run on land or in water? How about fish? Birds?
Q6.5: Do people swim on land or in water? How about fish? Birds?
Q6.6: Do people fly on land or in the air? How about fish? Birds?
Q6.7: Which of legs, fins, and wings does one use to swim, run, and fly?
Q6.8: Which is fastest, swimming, running, or flying? Which is slowest?
Q6.9: If the door is closed, what must you do first before walking through it?
Q6.10: If the door is locked, what must you do first before opening it?
Q6.11: If the key is in your pocket, what must you do first before unlocking the door?
Q6.12: What should I ask next?
Q6.13: If it takes all your energy to open the door, can you then walk through it?
Q7.1: Which of cars, ships, and planes does one use to go by sea, land, and air?
Q7.2: Which is fastest, cars, ships, or planes? Which is slowest?
Q7.3: Which of cars, ships, and planes can carry cargo? Which can carry passengers?
Q7.4: Which was invented first, cars, ships, or planes? Which last?
Q7.5: Which of cars, ships, and planes travel in shipping lanes, on roads, and in air lanes?
Q7.6: Match up cars, ships, and planes to the navy, army, and air force.
Q7.7: Is a jeep a car, a ship, or a plane? What about a yacht? A biplane? An aircraft carrier? A truck?
Q7.8: What fuels are normally used by cars, ships, and planes?
Q7.9: Can cars be propelled by the wind? Ships? Planes?
Q7.10: How do you communicate between two ships? Two planes? Two cars?
Q7.11: Can a plane communicate with a ship? A plane with a car?
Q7.12: Where are cars kept when not in use? Planes? Ships?
Q7.13: What do you steer a car with? What about a plane? A ship?
Q7.14: Must a car always stop when driving through a small town?
Q7.15: Can a car drive backwards? Can a plane fly backwards? Can a ship sail backwards?
Q8.1: What color is the sky? Why?
Q8.2: What color are clouds? Why?
Q8.3: What is the name of the period during which the sun is down?
Q8.4: What is the name of the period during which the sun is up?
Q8.5: Approximately when does the sun rise?
Q8.6: Give three names for the rising of the sun.
Q8.7: About how long does the sun stay up?
Q8.8: Approximately when does the sun set?
Q8.9: Give three names for the setting of the sun.
Q8.10: About how long does the sun stay down?
Q8.11: What are the times of rising and setting of the moon called?
Q8.12: How long does the moon stay up?
Q8.13: When do the stars come out? Why?
Q8.14: Which is brightest, the sun, the moon, or the stars? Which least?
Q8.15: Can you see the stars when the sun is up?
Q8.16: Can you see the moon when the sun is up?
Q8.17: Does the sun go round the earth or vice versa?
Q8.18: Does the moon go round the earth or vice versa?
Q8.19: Which is closer to the earth, the stars or the planets?
Q9.1: Is rain wet or dry?
Q9.2: Is hail hard or soft?
Q9.3: What color is rain?
Q9.4: What color is hail?
Q9.5: What color is snow?
Q9.6: Which is harder, rain or hail?
Q9.7: Which is warmer, rain or snow?
Q9.8: Can rain cause lightning?
Q9.9: Can rain cause floods?
Q9.10: Can lightning cause floods?
Q10.1: Can people walk? Run? Fly? Swim? Talk? Think?
Q10.2: Name three external human organs and three internal.
Q10.3: How long can people go without air? Water? Food? Sex? Money? Snow?
Q10.4: How long does the average human live?
Q10.5: Does the average female live more than a year longer than the average male?
Q10.6: How tall is the average human?
Q10.7: Is the average male height within an inch of the average female height?
Q10.8: How heavy is the average human?
Q10.9: Is the average male weight within 5 lbs of the average female weight?
Q10.10: Are people made up mainly of organic or inorganic material?
Q10.11: Do people have more or less hair than polar bears? Birds? Pigs?
Q10.12: About how many people fit comfortably in a car? A ship? A plane? An elevator? An escalator? A turnstile?
Q10.13: Do people talk daily about the weather? The color of rain?
Q10.14: Can three people listen to the same person at the same time?
Q10.15: Can three people talk to the same person at the same time?
Q10.16: Can a person whistle while talking?
Q11.1: Do you understand addition?
Q11.2: What is 1 plus 1?
Q11.3: What is 2 plus zero?
Q11.4: Is the sum of two counting numbers always a counting number?
Q11.5: Is every counting number the sum of two other counting numbers?
Q11.6: Is addition commutative?
Q11.7: Does addition satisfy any other laws?
Q11.8: If I increment x y times, do I get the same as when I increment y x times?
Q11.9: Can any two numbers be added together?
Q12.1: How long is the list of numbers from 1 to 10?
Q12.2: What comes between the third and fifth members of a list?
Q12.3: Do you know what it means to concatenate two lists?
Q12.4: What do you get when you concatenate the list of numbers from 1 to 3 with itself?
Q12.5: Is the concatenation of two lists always a list?
Q12.6: Is concatenation associative?
Q12.7: Is concatenation commutative?
Q12.8: How long is the concatenation of two three-item lists?
Q12.9: How long is the concatenation of two n-item lists?
Q12.10: Can a list be circular?
Q12.11: Is a list one-dimensional or two-dimensional?
Q12.12: Is a one-dimensional array a list?
Q12.13: Is the concatenation of a sorted list of 1-digit numbers with a sorted list of 2-digit numbers sorted?
Q12.14: If the first two members of a list are both 1, and thereafter each member is the sum of the two members immediately preceding it, what is the third member? The fourth? The hundredth?
Q13.1: Do you understand subtraction?
Q13.2: What is 5 minus 3?
Q13.3: What is -3 plus 5?
Q13.4: If I open a bank account with $100, deposit $5000 a week later, and withdraw $3000 another week later, how much is in the account?
Q13.5: Do banks permit withdrawals from an empty account?
Q13.6: If I open a bank account with $100, withdraw $3000 a week later, and then deposit $5000 another week later, how much is in the account?
Q13.7: If I have $x in my bank account and withdraw $y, how much is left?
Q13.8: Can one withdraw a negative amount? What would that mean?
Q13.9: Can I make two consecutive deposits?
Q13.10: Can I make two consecutive withdrawals?
Q13.11: Can I make any number of consecutive withdrawals? What if they are all negative?
Q14.1: What is the name of the head of a monarchy? A dictatorship? A republic? How is each typically chosen?
Q14.2: How long does a major election take, seconds, months, or decades?
Q14.3: Is an election candidate who gets 90% of the votes likely to win his or her race? How about 80%? 20%? 10%?
Q14.4: What are the two best known ways of getting votes, from among soliciting, borrowing, stealing, and buying?
Q14.5: Which of these two means should be used secretly?
Q14.6: What media are available for soliciting votes?
Q14.7: Do voters elect or get elected?
Q14.8: How many times may one vote for a candidate in a race?
Q14.9: Do lobbyists vote or lobby?
Q14.10: Do political parties often have fewer than ten people?
Q14.11: Which are there usually more of, parties, or candidates per party?
Q14.12: Name four ways of leaving elected office.
Q15.1: Is bread a type of food?
If you have any remarks on the answers, feel free to email them to me, and maybe I will post them. You can find my email at the top and at the bottom of this page.
