Richard, You are entitled to your reservations about OpenCog, but others, like me, are entitled to our enthusiasms about it.
You are correct that OpenCog starts with a certain approach, but I think it is an approach that has a lot of promise, and if it has fatal limitations, hopefully OpenCog will help us learn about them, so either the system can be improved, or replaced by a better approach. If you have another approach, I wish you good luck with it. Ed Porter -----Original Message----- From: Richard Loosemore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2007 7:19 PM To: agi@v2.listbox.com Subject: [agi] OpenCog 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 ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?&; ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=79755652-91da20
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