Ever wanted to help train an AI?

[netmouse]

Open Mind is an MIT Media Lab project to collect common sense knowledge to use for computer reasoning. You can register and teach it things yourself.

Comments

[maudelynn.livejournal.com]

can it be taught to make a proper cuppa ???

[netmouse.livejournal.com]

Ha! Maybe you should go tell it how!

[maudelynn.livejournal.com]

oh yes, i bet i could

as i have always said

i may not always make good sense, but i ALWAYS make good tea!

xo
dan'a

[matt-arnold.livejournal.com]

I've used this. It's interesting for a while. For a long time I had wanted to participate in David Lenat's Cyc project which set out to do the same thing, except they didn't involve massively volunteered participation. They were having a few highly trained and trusted volunteers do it all, and it was crawling along.

The ultimate way to build a semantic network would be to spider semantic data on the web as described in this fictional article, written in 2002, purporting to be from 2008.

[netmouse.livejournal.com]

Well, I guess Open Mind is at least trolling the web for words that show up together a lot (one of the activities is to explain the connection between two words it has found on the web) but I don't know if it's doing more semantic analysis of web information.