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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