Blogs May Be Training Input for AI Systems
April 16, 2010
The Montréal Gazette ran an interesting story “’Mundane’ Blogs Could Help Train Artificial-Intelligence Computers: Researcher. I think of blogs as marketing vehicles, not instructional material. That goes to show how little I know. For me, the key passage in the write up was:
For Andrew Gordon, there’s no such thing as a boring blog — even if it chronicles making breakfast or walking to work. A research scientist at the University of Southern California’s Institute for Creative Technologies, he’s heading a new project with the ambitious aim of archiving every English-language blog entry posted online — a million of them a day — in hopes of using this vast database to teach artificial-intelligence computers about real life. “People write about the mundane aspects of their daily life, and for me, personally, I find it incredibly interesting,” he says.
This line of research falls within what has been called “a formalization of common sense.”
Stephen E Arnold, April 16, 2010
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