The article on the fate of the two AI researchers was interesting. Perhaps many here share their belief that AGI will vastly change the world. It is however unfortunate that they did not seek medical help for their symptoms of depression - no one needs to suffer that kind of pain. They were so young.
Regarding the striking similarity between their approach to AI, MindPixel was commercial so I never looked at it, but I did look at the OpenMind/ConceptNet content while at Cycorp for possible import into Cyc. The chief error that OpenMind made was that the web forms did not perform a semantic analysis of the input, and therefore it was not possible to filter out the ill-formed, sarcastic, or false statements. In my own work, I hope to motive a multitude of volunteers to interact with a compelling, intelligent English dialog system. My work will acquire knowledge and skills as logical statements based upon the ontology of OpenCyc. Meta assertions can attach an optional belief probability when appropriate. The positive, confirming result the I take away from both MindPixel and OpenMind is that volunteers performed several million interactions with their rudimentary interfaces. I will be following down that path too. I'll make a further announcement about my dialog system in a separate post to keep this thread on topic. -Steve Stephen L. Reed Artificial Intelligence Researcher http://texai.org/blog http://texai.org 3008 Oak Crest Ave. Austin, Texas, USA 78704 512.791.7860 ----- Original Message ---- From: Ben Goertzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2008 3:49:55 PM Subject: Re: [agi] OpenMind, MindPixel founders both commit suicide Well, Lenat survives... But he paid people to build his database (Cyc) What's depressing is trying to get folks to build a commonsense KB for free ... then you get confronted with the absolute stupidity of what they enter, and the poverty and repetitiveness of their senses of humor... ;-p ben On Jan 19, 2008 4:42 PM, Eliezer S. Yudkowsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/16-02/ff_aimystery?currentPage=all > > I guess the moral here is "Stay away from attempts to hand-program a > database of common-sense assertions." > > -- > Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/ > Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence > > ----- > 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/?&; > -- Ben Goertzel, PhD CEO, Novamente LLC and Biomind LLC Director of Research, SIAI [EMAIL PROTECTED] "We are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth." -- Vernor Vinge ----- 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/?&; ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping ----- 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/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=87846884-b52355
