Ed Porter wrote:
"OpenCog: A Software Framework for Integrative Artificial General
Intelligence" by Dave Hart and Ben Goertzel says
"Contingent upon funding for OpenCog proceeding as planned, we are
targeting 1H08 for our first official code release, to be accompanied by
a full complement of documentation, tools, and development support"
Is there any show of support from people on the AGI and OpenCog lists
that might help the funding effort, such as making small contributions
or writing emails to any of the major potential contributors, that might
help persuade them of the need, importance, and desire in the AGI
community for this effort?
I am sorry, but I have reservations about the OpenCog project.
The problem of building an open-source AI needs a framework-level tool
that is specifically designed to allow a wide variety of architectures
to be described and expressed.
OpenCog, as far as I can see, does not do this, but instead takes a
particular assortment of mechanisms as its core, then suggests that
people add modules onto this core. This is not a framework-level
approach, but a particular-system approach that locks all future work
into the limitations of the initial core.
For example, I have many, many AGI designs that I need to explore, but
as far as I can see, none of them can be implemented at all within the
OpenCog system. I would have to rewrite OpenCog completely to get it to
meet my needs.
Richard Loosemore
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