From: J. R. Molloy (jr@shasta.com)
Date: Fri Jun 29 2001 - 10:26:37 MDT
First Artificial Intelligence to Undergo Formal Human Psychological
Evaluation
SAN DIEGO, CA -- 06/29/2001 -- For the first time a standard psychological
test known as the MMPI-2 (Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory) used
by clinicians world wide in the evaluation and treatment of adults will be
administered to a machine based artificial personality.
GAC (Generic Artificial Consciousness) - pronounced 'Jack' - is the
artificial personality being developed at the Mindpixel Digital Mind
Modeling Project (www.mindpixel.com) with the collaboration of nearly 40,000
internet users from more than 200 countries worldwide. GAC will be evaluated
using the MMPI-2 over the next several months to assess it's learning of
human consensus experience from the Mindpixel project's large and diverse
group of users from many different cultures. The test will be supervised and
interpreted by Dr. Robert Epstein, one of the world's leading experts on
human and machine behavior.
"Nothing like this has ever been attempted," said Epstein. "We're evaluating
thousands of people worldwide as if they were one collective individual."
"We don't know if it is possible to build a normal personality out of
millions of little pieces. This experiment will tell us how reasonable the
idea is," said Epstein.
In the nearly one year the project has been online, Mindpixel's Internet
contributors have made nearly 8 million individual measurements of more than
355,000 individual items of human consensus experience. The project's
organizers hope that they will gain enough information by the time the
project's data collection phase is complete in 2010, to build a highly
accurate statistical model of an average human mind which they hope can be
used as a foundation for true artificial consciousness.
About Dr. Robert Epstein:
One of the world's leading experts on human and machine behavior, Robert
Epstein received his doctorate in psychology at Harvard University in 1981.
He is Editor-in-Chief of Psychology Today magazine and University Research
Professor at United States International University in San Diego. He is also
the founder and Director Emeritus of the Cambridge Center for Behavioral
Studies in Massachusetts and Adjunct Professor of Psychology at San Diego
State University. He was also the former director of the famed Loebner Prize
competition in Artificial Intelligence.
About Mindpixel:
The Mindpixel Digital Mind Modeling Project (www.mindpixel.com) was launched
on July 6, 2000. It is the world's largest artificial Intelligence effort
with nearly 40,000 contributing members in more than 200 countries.
About the MMPI-2:
Developed as a specialized psychological test for the measurement of
psychopathology, the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) has
been the preferred psychosocial diagnostic instrument among clinicians for
the past 50 years. The MMPI originally published in 1940 by Hathaway and
McKinley, has been implemented in many clinical and non-clinical contexts,
including medical, educational, medicolegal and organisational settings. A
restandardisation and partial revision of the MMPI resulted in the
publication of the MMPI-2 in 1989.
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