Comments on: Push Singh at PUSH 2005

By: Push The Future | Beginning with a sad ending

Push The Future | Beginning with a sad ending — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 02:02:45 +0000

[...] Push had just earned his doctorate and had terrific enthusiasm for the future of AI and the promise that his OpenMind Common Sense project held for further advances in the field. He was very likable -warm and kind, sweet – and very impressive as well. His presentation was captured beautifully by Ethan Zuckerman, another presenter at the conference (a very smart man whose work focuses on the use of technology in international development, and probably the best blogger around). You can read/revisit it here. [...]

By: Beginning with a sad ending « Pushthefuture’s Weblog

Beginning with a sad ending « Pushthefuture’s Weblog — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 03:59:31 +0000

By: Beginning with a sad ending « Pushthefuture’s Weblog

Beginning with a sad ending « Pushthefuture’s Weblog — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 01:53:22 +0000

[...] Push had just earned his doctorate and had terrific enthusiasm for the future of AI and the promise that his OpenMind Common Sense project held for further advances in the field. He was very likable -warm and kind, sweet – and very impressive as well. His presentation was captured beautifully by Ethan Zuckerman, another presenter at the conference (a very smart man who’s work focuses on the use of technology in international development, and probably the best blogger around). You can read/revisit it here. [...]

By: Vijay

Vijay — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 11:21:50 +0000

Openmind has been a great source of commonsense research and direction to any one who’s interested. With push passing away, I think its not much pursued by anyone coz most of openmind is now not functioning. But overall openmind has been a great source of inspiration to various commonsense projects like conceptnet, lifenet and storynet. I think openmind is a great way to collect commonsense info thru web mining making thousands of common pple to generated a commonsense knowledge base for research and development in Commonsense AI.

-vijay

By: beatrice

beatrice — Mon, 28 May 2007 14:34:48 +0000

work on openmind commonsense pre-dates, and far exceedes mindpixel in its contribution to ai. mindpixel was a stunt, at best, and had little to no grounding in previous commonsense reasoning work in ai. mindpixel was developed by someone more interested in recognition and fame than really solving the hard problems in ai. openmind commonsense catalyzed a movement in ai toward community collection and webmining of commonsense knowledge, techniques adapted now by cyc corp and other companies trying to crack problems of infering meaning from text.

By: Ethan

Ethan — Tue, 14 Jun 2005 17:06:34 +0000

Push isn’t making especially strong claims for the system – he seems to be more interested in collecting these inputs and in some of the social dynamics of collecting this information. I agree that the system looks a great deal like MindPixel – I’ll see if I can put that question to Push later today.

By: Jorn Barger

Jorn Barger — Tue, 14 Jun 2005 16:21:13 +0000

OpenMind is actually a ripoff of a project called “MindPixel” by a hoaxster named Chris McKinstry: http://robotwisdom.com/ai/mckinstry.html

Both have zero credibility as AI.