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The Collection of Physical Knowledge and Its Application in Intelligent Systems

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Artificial General Intelligence (AGI 2011)

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Intelligence is a multidimensional problem of which physical reasoning and physical knowledge are important dimensions. However, there are few resources of physical knowledge that can be used in data-driven approaches to Artificial Intelligence. Comirit Objects is a project intended to encourage the general public to contribute to research in Artificial Intelligence by building simple 3D models of everyday objects via an interactive web-site. This paper describes the simplified representation and web-interface used by Comirit Objects and a preliminary investigation into the potential applications of the collected models.

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  1. Smarter Living Studio, School of Software, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

    Benjamin Johnston

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  1. Istituto Dalle Molle di Studi sull’Intelligenza Artificiale (IDSIA), Lugano, Switzerland

    Jürgen Schmidhuber

  2. Reykjavik University, CADIA, Menntavegi 1, 101, Reykjavik, Iceland

    Kristinn R. Thórisson

  3. Google Research, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, 94043, CA, USA

    Moshe Looks

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Johnston, B. (2011). The Collection of Physical Knowledge and Its Application in Intelligent Systems. In: Schmidhuber, J., Thórisson, K.R., Looks, M. (eds) Artificial General Intelligence. AGI 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6830. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22887-2_17

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