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December 18, 2002
Computers and common sense

Courtesy of my day job, I got a chance to talk with Walter Bender today. He's the executive director of the MIT Media Lab, and one of the projects he talked to us about was something called OpenMind, which is:

an attempt to make computers smarter by making it easy and fun for people all over the world to work together to give computers the millions of pieces of ordinary knowledge that constitute "common-sense", all those aspects of the world that we all understand so well we take them for granted.

All I want to know is how did it know how to ask such a relevant question when I gave it so little information :). My first teaching opportunity:

asks me about beer!

Comments

Henry Lieberman at Media lab actually teaches a course on this. See:

http://web.media.mit.edu/~lieber/Teaching/Common-Sense-Course/

-- Posted by on January 2, 2003 05:06 PM
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