Pushpinder Singh, a Ph.D. student at the Media Lab is in the early stages of
a CYC-like project called "Open Mind: Acquiring Common Sense over the
Internet"
http://www.media.mit.edu/people/push/internet-commonsense.html
Minsky is his advisor.
--- Sean Morgan Javien Canada Inc.-----Original Message----- From: owner-extropians@extropy.org [mailto:owner-extropians@extropy.org]On Behalf Of Mike Linksvayer Sent: Saturday, September 02, 2000 9:33 PM To: extropians@extropy.org Subject: CYC the internet way?
If you think the CYC path to AI has any chance, you'll probably find GAC (stands for Generic Artificial Conciousness) interesting. Instead of using experts to create a knowledge base, GAC has joe internet user entering and validating true/false questions.
It looks like the project is really taking off (it looks like their contributor base is growing very rapidly, and they're starting to get press). Temporarily anyway, it could be hailed as the next big distributed thing. It will be interesting to see how long people stay interested, or whether any "interesting" results will come of it.
[t] [f] GAC is hiding under the carpet at http://www.mindpixel.com/?ref=10076
[t] [f] Of course they're using a referral program
[t] [f] http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,38466,00.html concerns GAC
[t] [f] http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20000825.html supposedly is about GAC but pbs.org currently can't find the page
[t] [f] Lenat hasn't thoroughly researched GAC, but is skeptical
-- [t] [f] Signatures tend to follow a line matching the pattern ^--$
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