mindpixel.com = very interesting AI project
 

http://www.mindpixel.com/

"The Mindpixel Corpus is the world's first and largest database of validated consensus human knowledge. It is an ever improving approximation of the mind of an average Internet user, constructed and owned tens of thousands of people just like you from all over the world, speaking all of the world's languages.

By talking to GAC in clear and unambigious Mindpixels, you teach what it is to be human. In doing so, you help create the Mindpixel Corpus, which is the largest database of validated human common sense ever attempted to be collected. When complete in 2010 it will have more than one billion individual facts, entered by over two million individual people. The data entry alone for this project is valued at more than $250 million.

A Mindpixel is a binary statement of consensus fact such as "Water is wet" or "It is difficult to swim with ski pants on". The idea behind this project is to collect as many such statements as possible from the world wide internet community and validate them. The database will then be used to train neural net based systems to mimic a human being when presented with Mindpixels. We hope to have 2 million users registered by the end of 2003 and 1 billion validated Mindpixels by 2010. The means about 30 billion transactions!"

cool stuff.

i could spend all night on that thing!
'men give affection for sex' TRUE
lmao!

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I agree it is cool in a kind of "never been done before" way....

But, as a woman who read 1984 at age 9 and who's parents were paranoid hippies and who's fave movie is Clockwork Orange and 2001, you can understand where I might be equally fascinated and worried as to what the future brings.

Computers thinking like humans is something, that I think, has more chance of being harmful to humans than helpful.

Probably just a case of fear of the unknown, or maybe I just spent way too much time in front of the VCR as a kid lol.

aprilkorova,

the thing about too much time in front of the VCR sounds right to me! http://bbs.gofuckyourself.com/board/smile.gif

HQ lol, the older I get the more I think that's true. http://bbs.gofuckyourself.com/board/smile.gif

damn 1984... that was scary on a societal level... it could go that way, that's the prob http://bbs.gofuckyourself.com/board/wink.gif

i haven't read 1984 yet, even though i know the general story. i just picked it up from one of my friends last weekend... i was just about to start reading it!

HQ, READ IT! lol

Definitely in the top 3 of modern/contemporary literature masterpieces.

It will change you, for better or worse. lol

We spent our growing up years in Loews and Jerry Lewis Cinemas. http://bbs.gofuckyourself.com/board/biggrin.gif Back when a cassette was a 2 track, and feed from the end, 4 tracks and 8 tracks, FAST cars and all that. A black beauty or a yellowjacket didn't come from faux drug companies. http://bbs.gofuckyourself.com/board/wink.gif

I had to read it in grade 11... quite intresting..

but my all time favs are the Lords of The RIngs.... WOW.. what a masterpiece http://bbs.gofuckyourself.com/board/smile.gif

aprilkorova, i'll start real soon!

the books i had to read in school were to kill a mockingbird and the old man and the sea. to kill a mockingbird was banned from our schools a year or 2 later. english teacher was pissed off hardcore, but could do nothing about it.

one of the coolest books i've read was zen and the art of motorcycle maintanence. it's incredible. very deep and philosophical.

Christ, my parents are the exact same....hmmm they did tell me I had a sister?

I used to hang out on the AI forums when I was in high school... Really this is just a collection of facts -- I think they call it a knowledge system -- it is so far away from consciousness... A computer program is totally harmless -- you just unplug the thing... Unless it's designed with malicious intent -- like an AI virus would be cool ;) There are viruses that can morph themselves into new viruses to avoid detection. How about an intelligent virus that communicates with its brain remotely -- to decide how to infect even more machines... I'm sure this is coming -- if not already in existance.

This guy at the Players Ball was telling me about his buddies that accidentally hacked AT&T and shut down their entire phone system ehehe... And I remember reading that some hackers coming in through China almost shut down California's power system. Humans are way more dangerous than computers. Personally I think it would be fun to code ICQ AI bot babes to make some cash... I'll have to look into that ;)

Anyway no need to worry about these AI programs -- they really can't come up w/ ideas or become aware of their existance -- I'm sure it will be decades before man creates life inside a machine. Sounds more like Short Circuit or War Games to me than Clockwork Orange ahahha...

My friend Fred told me they actually were working on a computer program in the 60's (he worked for the company) to do just exactly what the computer in the War Games film was doing. They were gathering information about the way different groups of people would react in different situations -- and based on that and a bunch of other data they could construct all sorts of battle, disaster, and apocolyptic scenarios... and that was the 60's -- I'd imagine that sort of technology is very very advanced now.

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exactly.