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MindpixelMindpixel is a World Wide Web based collaborative artificial intelligence project led by Chris McKinstry a one time computer hacker and former Very Large Telescope operator for the European Southern Observatory in Chile. The project enlists the efforts of thousands of participants over the www and offers them a share in its value if it is successful. Hence its claim to be “The planet's largest artificial intelligence effort" .
The project aims to create a database of millions of human validated true/false statements or probabilistic propositions. Participants create one line statements which will be objectively true or false to 20 other anonymous participants. In order to submit their statement they must first check the true/false validity of 20 such statements submitted by others . Participants who reply consistently out of step with the majority have their status downgraded and are eventually excluded.. Likewise participants who make contributions which others cannot agree are objectively true or false have their status downgraded.
A validated true/ false statement is called a mindpixel.
Chris McKinstry believes that the database so constructed could be used in conjunction with a neural net to produce a body of human common sense knowledge which would have market value. Participants are awarded shares in any future value according to the number of mindpixels they have successfully created.
The database and its software is known as GAC (pronounced Jak) .
The project started in 2000 and has 1.4 million mindpixels as of Jan 2004.
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Mindpixel Digital Mind Modeling Project
The Mindpixel Corpus will soon be the world's largest database of consensus human knowledge, built by tens of thousands of people just like you from all over Earth, speaking many languages.
http://www.mindpixel.com/
Open Mind Initiative
World-wide collaborative effort to develop smart software. Collects information from non-expert Internet users, to teach computers the myriad things we all know and which underlie general intelligence but which we usually take for granted. Several subprojects.
http://www.openmind.org/
InterSAINT
International Sensible Artificial Intelligence Network of Thoughts: project to develop a global brain based mainly on neural networks and distributed computing on the Internet. Many interesting, useful links. English and Español.
http://www.InterSAINT.org/
Open Mind Commonsense
Open Mind Initiative subproject to teach computers common sense reasoning. Hosted at MIT Media Lab, under the guidance of Marvin Minsky.
http://commonsense.media.mit.edu/cgi-bin/search.cgi
Wired News: Wanted: Contents of Your Brain
Covers Chris McKinstry, Mindpixel, GAC.
http://www.wirednews.com/news/technology/0,1282,38466,00.html
Time Europe: Techwatch: Site Seeing
Computers still can't think for themselves. To do that they'd need the cyber equivalent of common sense: the millions of pieces of ordinary knowledge that humans take for granted. Very brief story on Mindpixel and Open Mind.
http://www.time.com/time/europe/magazine/2000/0925/techwatch.html
Wired News: Two Fake Brains Better Than One
Short story about Mindpixel, Open Mind, some difference between them, and possible cooperation.
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,38745,00.html
PBS.org: Cringely: Put On Your Thinking Cap
Covers Chris McKinstry, Mindpixel, GAC.
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20000824.html
SF Weekly Online: News: A HAL of an Idea
Dr. David Stork is trying to create a new computer that thinks like a human being. But he needs your help.
http://www.sfweekly.com/issues/2000-11-15/bayview.html
New York Times: Researchers Muster Online Volunteers for Collective Brainpower
Brief article describing large volunteer web collaborations: Mindpixel, Open Mind; Open Directory, NASA Clickworkers study (crater identification). Free registration required.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/08/technology/08CRAT.html
InterSAINT.org Project: SourceForge
Goal: develop a global artificial brain based mainly on distributed AI algorithms: neural nets, evolutionary computation.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/intersaint/
BBC: Clicking for consciousness
Covers Chris McKinstry, Mindpixel, GAC.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/903686.stm
1001 Questions@MIT | Open Mind Project Branch
An artificial Intelligence System to be taught by you about everything. User can teach Learner as a kid to explore this world. Learner will formulate what is taught and ask questions in plain English.
http://teach-computers.org/learner.html
Mizore Artificial Intelligence Project
Two projects Neuralsim and Izumi concerning Artificial Intelligence. Neuralsim is a neural network that attempts to mimic some biological form; Izumi is a text parser concerning natural language processing. It visualizes time-varying linguistic data and draws connections between content.
http://mizore.sourceforge.net/
Mandryka : Maths, Physics and Computing with Linux.
Maths, Physics and Computing with Linux. Open source code, GPL, Linux, Information retrieval, Search engines
http://www.mandryka.com:8080
Gdansk Artificial Brain Iniciative
The homepage of Gdansk Artificial Brain Research Iniciative, student organization for extending AI knowledge by active participation in real research project.
http://www.gabri.pl
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http://www.agentcities.org
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http://www.webstructor.net/
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