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Medieval Thinking and Political AGI

Posted on May 27, 2018 by Linas Vepstas

A cherry picked quote from a review of a new book: “In his new book, Pearl, now 81, elaborates a vision for how truly intelligent machines would think. The key, he argues, is to replace reasoning by association with causal … Continue reading →

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Reframing OpenCog Action Selection: Contextual Bandit Problems and Reinforcement Learning

Posted on December 18, 2016 by Ben Goertzel

I thought a bit today about how OpenCog’s action selector (based on the Psi model from Dietrich Dorner and Joscha Bach) relates to approaches to action selection and behavior learning one sees in the reinforcement learning literature. After some musing, … Continue reading →

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Cogistry: Accelerating Algorithmic Chemistry via Cognitive Synergy

Posted on October 25, 2016 by Ben Goertzel

This post describes some speculative ideas for new AI/AGI/Artificial-Life/Artificial-Chemistry development that could be done on top of the OpenCog platform, leveraging OpenCog tools in a novel way. These are not necessarily proposed for immediate-term development – we have a lot … Continue reading →

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Smart Contract Blockchains

Posted on October 18, 2016 by Linas Vepstas

Blockchains and smart contracts are all the rage, these days. What does this have to do with OpenCog?  Let me explain. TL;DR: The idea of a block-chain comes from the idea of block ciphers, where you want to securely sign … Continue reading →

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Putting Deep Perceptual Learning in OpenCog

Posted on November 1, 2015 by Ben Goertzel

This post presents some speculative ideas and plans, but I broadcast them here because I think they are of particular strategic importance for the OpenCog project…. The topic is: how OpenCog and “current-variety deep learning perception algorithms” can help each … Continue reading →

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