From: Amara D. Angelica (amara@kurzweilai.net)
Date: Fri Jun 29 2001 - 05:59:39 MDT
Has anyone figured out what GAC/Mindpixel does?
The only description I can find is this amorphous statement on
http://www.mindpixel.com/About/about.php3 (requires registration).
"The largest database of validated human common sense ever attempted to be
collected. When complete in 2010 it will have more than one billion
individual facts, entered by over two million individual people. The data
entry alone for this project is valued at more than $250 million.
"A Mindpixel is a binary statement of consensus fact such as "Water is wet"
or "It is difficult to swim with ski pants on". The idea behind this project
is to collect as many such statements as possible from the world wide
internet community and validate them. The database will then be used to
train neural net based systems to mimic a human being when presented with
Mindpixels."
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