On 1/19/07, Bob Mottram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
My feeling is that this probably isn't a great business idea. I think
collecting common sense data and building that into a general reasoner should really be thought of as a long term effort, which is unlikely to appeal to business investors expecting to see a return within a few years. In contrast to many business in this internet era, my project seems to need a low level of funding over a relatively long period of time (eg 5-10 years). I actually think this is a better business model for AGI (cf Ben's WebMind story =)). Funding is of secondary importance to finding the right partners; I know quite a few people with VC connections.
If any attempt is made to build a second version of mindpixel, I think the
open source (or open corpus) model would be the obvious choice. Chris McKinstry kept his database secret, and for a long time so did Cyc, and as a consequence those projects saw very little actual usage by anyone. The more easily researchers can get their hands on the corpus the more likely is that some interesting applications will result. How about this: the database would be open for anyone to download, for experimentation or whatever purpose. Only when someone wants to incorporate the data in an AGI, would a license fee be needed. Also I would make the inference engine etc opensource, again within a commercial context. This approach is not so common but I think it gets the best of both worlds.
It might also be worth noting that cross validated common sense
information can be grabbed directly from the internet, from sites like wikipedia. I've had a program doing this for quite some time, and the quality of the data acquired is good. There might be some gaps in the knowledge you acquired. If I really run the project I would also import knowledge acquired from other methods. YKY ----- 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
