The person who invented the boltzman machines - is - the inventor of this technique. He invented boltzman machines in the 80s and spent over 20 years trying to get them to actually work on difficult tasks.

Your rant about this not being compression or whatever you're trying to say is completely off the mark. You don't seem to understand what this work is about.

The netflix challenge is a supervised learning challenge. You have lots of 'labeled data'. This technique is about using 'unlabeled' data.

(Side note: At one point, Geoff Hinton and his group using this technique had the best result in the netflix challenge, but were beaten out by ensembles of algorithms.)

Cyc has nothing to do with this and is huge failure at AI.

tldr; You don't seem to be knowing what you're talking about after having reading your comments, and seem to readily discount the some of the most prominent machine learning researchers in the world today. You're obscuring important results that newcomers might have found interesting to follow up on.