Loosemore wrote: > 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.
Hi Richard, To be sure, OpenCog is not intended to be equally useful for all possible AGI approaches. To provide something equally useful for all AGI approaches, one would need to make something extremely broad -- basically, one would need to make a highly general-purpose operating-system and/or programming-language, rather than a specific software framework. OpenCog is designed to support a certain family of AGI designs, but is not designed to conveniently support all possible AGI designs. Definitely, there is room in the world for more than one AGI framework. As an example the CCortex platform seems like it may be a good framework within which to build biologically realistic NN based AGI systems (note, this is based on their literature only, I've never tried their system). I wish you much luck with your own approach.... And, I would imagine that if you create a software framework supporting your own approach in a convenient way, my own currently favored AI approaches will not be conveniently explorable within it. That's the nature of framework-building. -- Ben ----- 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=79828215-b4b8b5
