Otherwise the structure is similar in fashion to mine and many others, thoguh the wording is different. Terminology being a major stand-in-the-way point around here.
James
Ben Goertzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
YKY says:
> > The Novamente design is modular, in two senses:
> >
> > 1) there is a high-level architecture consisting of a network of
> > functionally specialized lobes -- a lobe for language processing, a
> > lobe for visual perception, a lobe for general cognition etc.
> >
> > 2) each lobe contains a set of agents, each one carrying out a
> > particular cognitive process on the knowledge store (e.g. reasoning,
> > declarative-to-procedural knowledge conversion, pattern mining, etc.)
> >
> > But, the actual cognition carried out by each agent is done using a
> > particular customization of the same generalized learning algorithm.
>
>
> This architecture seems overly complex, but it depends on the details.
It is indeed complex, but I have not found anything simpler than I
think will work...
The simpler multimodular architecture you suggest is used by many
researchers whom I respect, e.g. see Stan Franklin's LIDA
architecture, yet I ultimately think it has serious shortcomings...
>The
> word "agent" suggests something autonomous and person-like, maybe you mean
> many subprocesses? Cause I think it is strange to have agents within an
> intelligent agent.
The word "agent" is famously polysemous in computer science. In my
prior post, I used it in the sense of "software agent" not "autonomous
mental agent." These Novamente MindAgents are just software objects
with certain functionalities, that get scheduled and exchange
messages. The same sense of agents used in Gul Agha's work on agent
architectures, years ago.
== Ben G
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