Thanks Ben, I'm very interested in contributing, Right now I've been working on the opencog python bindings (moses and pln) since that's something I can manage while I work on getting my knowledge up to speed.
I read the wiki article and glanced at the pdf, wow that's really interesting. I'm way too uninformed to even talk about this intelligently in any detail, sorry, however in the near future I will be! ;) - Jarrad On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 7:03 PM, Ben Goertzel <[email protected]> wrote: > Jarrad, > > (Ignoring Mike T for the moment and trying to have a serious > conversation ;) > >> From what I've read - for the water example, say we took that photo >> and gave it to an AGI. Wouldn't PLN and some visual processing be able >> to infer (based on past experience) that all that blue is probably >> sky, theres multiple shapes that appear to be on a plane (inferring >> the plane is transparent, probably glass) - would bring up a bunch of >> nodes of things that could be related/attached to glass and sky one of >> them being water - from other experiences/knowledge they're would be >> networks that would branch out to water being particles/h20/fluid >> dynamics etc etc (should probably cut off the algorithm before this >> point).. and therefore all those distinctly different shapes are >> probably some kind of fluid, probably water (unless in the context >> there is a higher probability of it being, i dunno, urine?) > > I believe that "PLN and some visual processing" could do this, yeah. > > However, integrating OpenCog with a good vision processing system > is going to be a big job.... > > I wrote a conceptual paper for an AAAI symposium, on integrating > OpenCog with the DeSTIN vision system, titled "A Novel Strategy for > Hybridizing Subsymbolic and Symbolic Learning and Representation" > > http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=10&ved=0CHUQFjAJ&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aaai.org%2Focs%2Findex.php%2FFSS%2FFSS11%2Fpaper%2Fdownload%2F4217%2F4569&ei=pNvRT_eQA4uA6QHqwpCjAw&usg=AFQjCNHQMi4vZurInaIROQHsLBQw3H7T0A&sig2=fsGoblzB0peuNSTSEUtimw > > [note, that paper just gives the concept, not any results yet...] > > More recently, I wrote some more concrete thoughts about how to modify > DeSTIN to make this integration easier. > > http://wiki.opencog.org/w/DestinOpenCog > > All this is IMO do-able, but not trivial.... If you want to help, let > us know ;) > > -- Ben > > > ------------------------------------------- > AGI > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now > RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/22581513-9fe46a1c > Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-c97d2393 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-2484a968 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
