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Open Mind Common Sense

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TL;DR. A project collecting commonsense knowledge from the public to build a large knowledge base.

Technical Definition

A project collecting commonsense knowledge from the public to build a large knowledge base.

How it works

Open Mind Common Sense is an initiative, based at MIT, dedicated to constructing a vast knowledge base of common sense. It achieves this by crowdsourcing contributions from numerous individuals via the web, aiming to capture the implicit understanding humans use daily.

Related Concepts

  • Commonsense reasoning — AI's attempt to replicate the human ability to make educated guesses about ordinary, everyday situations.

Further Reading

  • Wikipedia — Glossary of AI