Chris McKinstry, a computer scientist and an artificial intelligence expert, has embarked on a groundbreaking artificial intelligence project that aims to leverage the mind power of millions of Web surfers to teach a computer to approximate human thought.
Web users are being invited to help create the first model of human thought. By collecting "atoms of information" a Canadian scientist hopes to be able to teach a computer what it means to be human. Once created, the body of knowledge will be made available to other artificial intelligence researchers trying to make machines smarter or easier to interact with.