Posted by: bgoertzel on: 2008-10-22
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 extrapolate indirect word associations, from direct words associations mined from text (by some statistical text mining [...]
Posted by: ferrouswheel on: 2008-09-18
A few weeks back Ben announced he’d be running IRC tutorial sessions on OpenCogPrime. Last night was the second tutorial, and was on the topic of knowledge representation – introducing people to the basic concepts of the AtomSpace, such as Atoms, Nodes, and Links and how various types of each represent things in OCP. If [...]
Posted by: bgoertzel on: 2008-08-10
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 September 10 (I’ll be out of town the first week of Sep, and figure too many [...]
Posted by: bgoertzel on: 2008-07-31
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 heavily based on the Novamente Cognition Engine design under development at Novamente LLC during 2001-2008.
The OpenCogPrime [...]