Ben should just follow my requirements as he is doing now. In order to get your toe in the door, you will need to offer some kind of product with actual functionality that works. Then, when the business side starts to take off, you will be able to to direct more resources towards these other kinds of thoughts. Those who are too impatient and who try to bite off more than they chew will only fail.
As I have said before: http://gigaom.com/2013/12/07/why-cognition-as-a-service-is-the-next-operating-system-battlefield/ There are only 3 commercial cognitive computing players who offer REAL solutions right now. But the window is closing... On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 7:16 PM, Linas Vepstas <[email protected]> wrote: > In chip design, new chips come with 'cookbooks' containing recipes for > how to use the new chips. The cheapest boards you can buy are often taken > verbatim from the cookbook. > > To add to Matt's list, > -- cookbook recipe for a low-cost, hobbyist self-flying drone. I'm > thinking something for the RC hobbyist. > > -- question answer (plain-text interface) that answers questions based on > data in some popular triplestore. This is a very common start-up > entrepreneur request: the entrepreneur typically has access to some > database, does not know how to do data mining on it, but does want to get > answers out of it. > > Both of these are a bit beyond what can be done today with opencog, but > seem like reasonable targets, and if acheived, if even partly, could > increase community participation. > > Linas > > > On 11 April 2014 20:24, Ben Goertzel <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I did have other use cases in mind, but am traveling with sporadic >> Internet connectivity and will post more about this later >> >> .. ben >> >> On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 5:19 PM, Matt Mahoney <[email protected]> wrote: >> > About time! I think some use cases would help. For example, how would >> > I use the OpenCog API to solve the following problems? >> > >> > 1. Self driving car. Input would be vision, accelerometer, GPS, voice >> > commands from passengers, and a street map of the world with traffic >> > reports over an intermittent wireless internet connection. The system >> > must adapt to driver corrections and preferences. >> > >> > 2. Spam filter. I have a 10^6 servers handling 10^11 messages per day >> > for 10^9 users. I want to classify each email as spam or not spam >> > based on individual user preferences and user corrections. >> > >> > 3. Face recognition. I have 10^12 images of 10^9 people, with 10^9 new >> > images added daily. Some of the faces are tagged, a small percent >> > incorrectly. I also have a 10^9 by 10^9 friend matrix (sparse, 10^12 >> > nonzero elements), indicating who knows who based on tagging and >> > communication history. I would like to tag or suggest tags for the >> > rest of the faces. The software needs to run on a server farm with >> > 10^6 processors. >> > >> > Or did you have other applications in mind? >> > >> > On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 7:28 PM, Ben Goertzel <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I have thought a bit about what kind of API might be generally useful >> >> for application developers to use to interface with a proto-AGI >> >> systems.... >> >> >> >> I put my initial notes at >> >> >> >> http://wiki.opencog.org/w/A_Cognitive_API >> >> >> >> As notes there, these should be taken as a sketch of some initial >> >> thoughts rather than an actual detailed API proposal. I think the >> >> semantics of the suggested API calls are about what is needed, but I >> >> haven't tried to make a serious proposal regarding the syntax yet (and >> >> I may not be the best person to do so) >> >> >> >> -- Ben >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Ben Goertzel, PhD >> >> http://goertzel.org >> >> >> >> "In an insane world, the sane man must appear to be insane". -- Capt. >> >> James T. 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