Author Archives: Ben Goertzel

Improvements to virtual world based NLP functionality

Here is an update on some recent OpenCog work that may be relevant to some of you…

(Email samir@vettalabs.com if you have detailed questions)

The main update is that the “virtual pet QA system” now answers questions regarding many more spatial …

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Fun with first-order inference

Joel Pitt has done some experiments testing first-order PLN inference in OpenCog, on some very simple data.

These experiments don’t use the indefinite probability formulas but rather the good old fashioned SimpleTruthValue PLN formulas.

What they involve is using PLN to …

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Progress update

This blog post constitutes an update on the current state of work on the OpenCog open-source AI project.

No particular event occasioned me writing the post — no dramatic milestone has been reached — …

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OpenCog Google-Summer-Of-Code Roundup

This summer OpenCog was chosen by Google to participate in the Google Summer of Code project: Google funded 11 students from around the world to work on OpenCog coding projects under the supervision of experienced mentors associated with the …

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OpenCogPrime Tutorial Chat Sessions beginning September 2008

I have decided to run a series of IRC sessions focused on collectively discussing the OpenCogPrime design, via working through the OpenCogPrime wikibook and discussing the ideas therein chapter-by-chapter.

Details are at http://opencog.org/wiki/OpenCogPrime:TutorialSessions

The sessions will be weekly and will start …

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Launch of OpenCog Prime, a detailed design for a thinking machine, an AGI with the potential for intelligence at the human level and beyond

The purpose of this blog post is to announce the release of a wikibook outlining a design for a specific AGI system intended to be built on top of the OpenCog framework.

This system design is called OpenCogPrime, and is …

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