1972 – 2006
Push Singh was an Indian-American computer scientist and AI researcher at MIT known for his work on commonsense reasoning and artificial general intelligence. He collaborated closely with Marvin Minsky and led the Open Mind Common Sense project, which aimed to build large-scale commonsense knowledge bases through crowdsourced contributions.
Founded and led the Open Mind Common Sense project at MIT Media Lab
Developed the EM-ONE architecture for commonsense reasoning in his doctoral thesis
Collaborated with Marvin Minsky on 'The Emotion Machine' theory of mind
Advanced multi-layered reflective cognitive architectures for AGI
Created ConceptNet, a semantic network derived from crowdsourced commonsense knowledge