To explain those things in a diagram, it would have to be 100x as big.

Those are explained in the "Building Better Minds" manuscript,
currently being proofread...

-- Ben

On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 5:07 PM, Mike Tintner <[email protected]> wrote:
> Seems to leave out the main part -
>
> how's it going to build the tower? incl.
>
> where are the blocks?
> how's it going to recognize them? find/gather them?
> how's it going to combine/lay the blocks?
> what concept of a tower is going to direct it?
> does it need a concept anyway?
>
> and - $64,000?
>
> ***how is this approach going to automatically apply to building new kinds
> of structures?  {i.e. "take-off"]***
>
> That's how I see you - always leaving out the main part :).
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Ben Goertzel
> Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2012 9:36 PM
> To: AGI
> Subject: [agi] Uber big scary monster OpenCog diagram
>
>
> For those who like ugly pictures... ;)
>
> Here is a diagram, scribbled by me, showing some bits and pieces of
> what the major parts of OpenCog are **supposed to** do, in the
> specific context of
> carrying out some simple physical and conversational actions involving
> building stuff with blocks:
>
> http://goertzel.org/WholeBigOpenCogDiagram.pdf
>
> http://goertzel.org/WholeBigOpenCogDiagram.png
>
> You'll have to zoom to read the writing, I guess...
>
> It's extremely oversimplified, as it shows a couple dozen Atoms and
> MindAgent-actions, in a situation where there would be at minimum
> hundreds of thousands of Atoms and dozens to hundreds of MindAgent
> actions per second.   So it's purely intended to be didactic and
> evocative.
>
> Note that this shows some stuff currently implemented & in use,
> some stuff in the codebase but not in use yet, and some stuff that's
> in the design but not yet implemented in code.
>
> It'll get re-drawn in SmartDraw sometime in the not too distant future...
>
> -- Ben
>
>
> --
> Ben Goertzel, PhD
> http://goertzel.org
>
> "My humanity is a constant self-overcoming" -- Friedrich Nietzsche
>
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