INTERNET users are being asked to share their common sense with a computer
program. Canadian computer scientist Chris McKinstry hopes that building a huge
body of facts into the program will help it understand how people think. “To
digitise the parts of the human experience that don’t currently exist,” he
says.
Called the Generic Artificial Consciousness, it has at its heart a huge
database of statements about the world that can be either true or false.
Realising what a superhuman task it would be to complete this database by
himself, McKinstry has turned to the Web to ask the rest…
