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| | Selbstdarstellung: | | What is the Open Mind Initiative? The Open Mind Initiative is a collaborative framework for developing "intelligent" software using the internet. Based on the traditional open source method, it supports domain experts (who provide algorithms), tool developers (who provides software infrastructure and tools) and non-specialist "netizens" (who contribute raw data). What are the goals of Open Mind? After many decades of research, there are still very many tasks for which computers are far worse than humans: recognizing speech, reading printed or handwritten text, recognizing objects from their image, understanding scenes, making complex plans, summarizing a story, and so on. It is clear that if such software could ever approach human performance, it would be extremely useful. Even if such software merely enhanced or aided human cognition, it would be useful. Much early research in "artificial intelligence" concentrated on small "toy" problems, such as game playing. There is a growing realization that we now need information contained in very large data sets. The principal goal of Open Mind is to develop "intelligent" software, in part by collecting such large data sets and providing an open infrastructure where different ideas can be tried out. The data and resulting software are made available to all. Another goal is to educate the public as to the problems in cognitive science, computer science, pattern recognition and related fields. How does Open Mind differ from traditional open source and the Free Software Foundation? The most important difference between traditional open source and Open Mind is that Open Mind relies on collecting, and exploiting large sets of data, such as the identities of millions of handwritten characters and spoken words, the names of objects in photographs, common sense about the world, and much, much more. This information is provided by non-expert "netizens." |
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