Cyc

Cyc is an AI platform that uses machine reasoning to improve business processes. By combining codified human common sense and knowledge, Cyc offers a human-like cognitive processing system that goes beyond pattern and statistical matching. The technology is designed for complex, human-level workloads and converts them into optimized, automated processes.

Cyc's greatest strength is its ability to overcome the shortcomings of human error and bias that are inherent in machine learning systems. Cyc's logic-based machine reasoning approach lets Cyc gather its own data and make its own decisions, which increases trust and auditability in industries like healthcare.

Some of Cyc's abilities include:

• Autonomous Leveling/Charge Capture: Automates data processing and minimizes errors.
• Autonomous Denial Management: Automates claims and denials and refutes denials.
• Autonomous Post-Acute Care Forecasting: Improves patient outcomes through data-driven decision support.
• Autonomous Staffing: Optimizes resource allocation and streamlines workforce management.

Cyc also touts its Enterprise Knowledge Layer, which formalizes the process of gathering, maintaining and democratizing corporate "tribal knowledge." That means the company's employee experience and expertise can be preserved even in the face of employee turnover and retirement. The technology is highly scalable and can be applied to many domains, such as supply chain management, logistics and financial analysis.

The technology is easy to deploy and integrate, with the ability to integrate with existing systems and workflows in a matter of weeks. Cyc's powerful API and connectivity toolkits mean a small resource footprint, whether running on-premise or in the cloud.

Cyc's platform is based on a large knowledge base that includes more than 40,000 predicates, 1.5 million concepts and 25 million axioms. That knowledge base is broad enough to let the platform prove trillions of bits of real-world knowledge. Cyc's higher-order logic abilities also let it represent knowledge in a more nuanced and expressive way, which is better for complex decision support and problem solving.

The platform's inference engines, more than 1100 of them, logically combine bits of knowledge from the large knowledge base with relevant external data sources. Cyc's ability for meta-reasoning means it can select the best inference engine for a particular task, leading to efficient and accurate reasoning.

Cyc is designed to automate and augment all complex, human-level workloads. That means its uses are broad, including improving patient care and hospital profitability, as well as enterprise knowledge management and decision support.

If you want to learn more about Cyc, you can request a demo on the company's website. That'll let you schedule a meeting with a Cyc representative and see how the technology can help your specific needs.

Published on July 26, 2024