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Happy Fifth Birthday GAC and Mindpixel!

Posted by timothy on from the you-think-you-can-you-think-you-can dept.

mindpixel writes "GAC is five today! Wow, that was fast! To celibrate, I am releasing 80,000 mindpixels with their corresponding probability of truth for research use."

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  1. I love /. by mindpixel · · Score: 4, Informative
    For five years now, more than 50,000 people have been working to make a map of common sense. The project is known as Mindpixel. It was launched on July 6, 2000. On August 24, 2000 Chris McKinstry (me) and Mindpixel were profiled by Robert X. Cringely. In September of 2000 Both Time and Wired magazines carried news of the merger of Mindpixel with the MIT Media Labs Open Mind Common Sense Project.

    Now, what can you do with this data? Well, once it is in the google index - tomorrow, I suspect. Then the 3.5mb page of 80k validated pieces of knowledge will be able to do for consensus internal knowledge what wikipedia does for consensus external knowledge. I hope that eventually, google will trust Mindpixel as it does Wikipedia. Then commercial applications of semantic spectrum based technology can proceed, and the 50,000 owners of the

  2. not a lot of comments yet by zerkon · · Score: 3, Informative

    everyone elses browser must be choking to death on the 80,000 lines of text like mine is...

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  3. Some help by mopslik · · Score: 2, Informative

    You're not alone. The GAC link leads to a minimal MindPixel front page, which reads "Digital Mind Modeling Project" and prompts me to log in. The blog link informs me that MindPixel is "a map of common sense". The 80,000 link initially crashed Firefox on my Win2K machine here at work, but on a retry, gave me a page which begins "Is ice cream cold? Is earth a planet? Is green a color?"

    Fortunately, Wikipedia gave some insight. But yeah, the article summary was a bit too vague for my liking.

  4. Re:No they don't. by exp(pi*sqrt(163)) · · Score: 2, Informative

    He's one of the most successful crackpots out there with stories in Wired and Time. (And /. of course.)

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  5. You don't know what this all is? by myukew · · Score: 2, Informative

    Fortunatly Slashdot had an inteview with the project founder

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  6. What does mindpixel think of slashdot? by penguin121 · · Score: 2, Informative

    ... after a quick investigation:

    1.00 What is slashdot? (Huh?)
    0.83 Is Slashdot actually a website?
    0.77 Does slashdot postings cause extra traffic for its mentioned websites?
    0.76 Is Slashdot a web site? (this one seems to vary a bit)
    0.39 Is slashdot.org good?
    0.35 Is the website at slashdot.org full of trolls and mindless linux bigots?
    0.30 Was mindpixel slashdotted?
    0.13 Is Slashdot the greatest site ever?
    0.05 Has the average person (e.g. your Mother) ever heard of Slashdot?
    and finally
    0.00 is slashdot good journalism? (How sad)

    Of course this is just a sampling of all the related mindpixel questions, but we can conclude that slashdot is a popular topic for mindpixel, but nobody mistakes it for good journalism...

  7. Ahh, wonderful by joto · · Score: 2, Informative
    We now can have a 5-year anniversary of bashing a completely useless project brought to you by some internet cook who thinks he has "solved" AI by writing a program that even a 5-year old would understand is useless.

    If you want a real database of "common-sense" knowledge, you should check out CYC instead. It might be harder to do it that way, but it sure pays off if you actually want to use it for something beyond spamming usenet groups and slashdot.