On 1/14/07, YKY (Yan King Yin) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm considering this idea: build a repository of facts/rules in FOL (or Prolog) format, similar to Cyc's. For example "water is wet", "oil is slippery", etc. The repository is structureless, in the sense that it is just a collection of simple statements. It can serve as raw material for other AGIs, not only mine (although it is especially suitable for my system).
Some comments/suggestions: * I think such a project should make the data public domain. Ignore silly ideas like giving be "shares" in the knowledge or whatever. It just complicates things. If the project is really strapped for cash later, then either use ad revenue or look for research funding (although I don't see much cost except for initial development of the system and web hosting). * Whenever people want to add a new statement, have them evaluate two existing statements as well. Don't make the evaluation true/false, use a slider so the user can decide how "true" it is (even better, have a xy chart with one axis true/false and the other how sure the user is - this would be useful in the case of some obscure fact on quantum physics since not all of us have the answer). * Emphasize the community aspect of the database. Allow people to have profiles and list the number of statements evaluated and submitted (also how true the statements they submit are judged). Allow people to form teams. Allow teams to extract a subset of the data which represents only the facts they've submitted and evaluated (perhaps this could be an extra feature available to sponsors?) * Although Lojban would be great to use, not many people are proficient it (relative to english), we could be idealistic and suggest that everyone learn lojban before submitting statements, but that would just shrink the user base and kill the community aspect. An alternative might be to allow statements in both languages to submitted (Hell, why not allow ANY language as long as it is tagged with what language it is). * An idea for keeping the community alive would be to focus on a particular topic each week, and run competitions between teams/individuals and award stars to their profile or something. * Instead of making people come up with brand new statements everytime, have a mode where the system randomly selects phrases from somewhere like wikipedia (some times this will produce stupid statements, and allow the user to indicate as such). I think it could be done and made quite fun. Don't just focus on the AI guys, most of us don't have that much spare time. Focus at the "bored at work" market. Actually going through and thinking about this has made me quite enthused about it. Keep me posted on how it pans out. If I didn't have 10 other projects and my PhD to do I'd volunteer to code it. -- -Joel "Unless you try to do something beyond what you have mastered, you will never grow." -C.R. Lawton ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?list_id=303
