>From: James Rogers <jamesr@best.com>
>I (and many others, I'm sure) see a lot of problems with this methodology.
>Basically, it is a really bad implementation of CYC. Before the whole
>MindPixel thing became a media sensation, I tried to see if I could get a
>good explanation from McKinstry regarding how he was going to solve some
>of the hard problems that aren't resolved by his design, since he was
>constantly touting it over email. I didn't get much more than some vague
>handwaving, which I assumed meant that some real issues weren't even being
>addressed and at which point I pretty much dismissed the whole "mindpixel"
>thing.
I could be wrong, but I don't think even McKinstry expects his project to
ever "wake up" and become sentient. At best it'll be just a huge database
of consensus human "common sense." No, that does not an AI make. But it
certainly seems to me to be a database that might one day prove *very*
valuable to a newly sentient AI who is very curious about the way humans see
the world, no?
-Zero
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