Category Archives: Development

Tuning Metalearning in MOSES

Posted on February 7, 2012 by Linas Vepstas

I’ve been studying MOSES recently, with an eye towards performance tuning it. Turns out optimization algorithms don’t always behave the way you think they do, and certainly not the way you want them to.

Given a table of values, MOSES …

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Preview of a virtual learning environment

Posted on August 4, 2011 by Joel Pitt

It’s been a while since the last update, but be assured we’ve been very busy working away on the embodiment code and developing our virtual learning environment. With AGI-11 now in progress at the Googleplex, we’ve put together a …

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OpenCog Recap – March to May 2011

Posted on May 20, 2011 by Joel Pitt

Wow – it’s been while since the last OpenCog Recap. I think it’s time to rectify that, as there’s been a lot happening since then!

In early April, Ben visited Hong Kong to give guidance to the long-term plan for …

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DeSTIN vision development

Posted on February 21, 2011 by Joel Pitt

Late in 2010 a working group was formed to turn the research code for DeSTIN, originally implement and developed by Tom Karnowski as part of his PhD, into a quality open source project.

There have been a number of contributors …

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OpenCog Hong Kong Project

Posted on December 7, 2010 by Joel Pitt

I thought I should write a post to let everyone know where we are at
with the Hong Kong AI project.

We’ve got ourselves established in the M-Lab currently, although Gino may want to relocate us to the School of Design …

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OpenCog navigating Nao robot

Posted on September 22, 2010 by Joel Pitt

Recently the team at Xiamen University have been working on integrating OpenCog with Nao robots. This recent video shows them using voice commands to tell the robot to walk from one object to the next. The robot hears, parses, …

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PLN forward chainer

Posted on February 20, 2010 by jaredwigmore

I (Jared Wigmore aka JaredW) have recently implemented a general forward chainer for PLN. (See Forward and Backward chaining on Wikipedia). Joel had previously implemented a prototype forward chainer, but it only supported deduction. PLN has a wide variety …

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OpenCog OSX Support

Posted on February 19, 2010 by Joel Pitt

Due to a recent contract involving development on OSX (unrelated to OpenCog unfortunately), I now have a MacBook Pro. Since we often have people attempting to get OpenCog building on OSX, with various levels of success, I decided to …

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OpenCog REST support (and web UI)

Posted on February 19, 2010 by Joel Pitt

OpenCog now has a REST interface that is loaded and runs on port 17034 by default. It has only recently been completed to a functional level where clients can:

make POST requests to create a new atom.
make POST requests to …

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Improvements to virtual world based NLP functionality

Posted on November 9, 2009 by Ben Goertzel

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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