Mike, This is partly just a matter of quibbling over word usage.
OpenCogPrime has many commonalities and many differences from the human brain-mind. Among the key differences -- OCP has a coherent, top-down goal system -- OCP uses probabilistic inference at a foundational level, rather than having it emerge from Hebbian learning among cell assemblies -- OCP represents abstraction using higher-order functions and explicit variables, rather than emergently using self-reference and inter-referent neural circuits However, the overall cognitive architecture is intentionally largely human-brainlike, except for the goal system. I have created two other AGI designs at a moderate level of detail, but have not written them up in any organized way due to lack of time 1) A neural net based system, in which inference and abstraction emerge from coordinated activity of adaptive, self- and inter-referent neural nets 2) A system based solely on mathematical theorem-proving, whose whole universe consists of mathematics I would say that the math-focused design qualifies as strongly non-humanoid according to any reasonable definition. The reasons I chose to focus on OpenCog rather than a math-based system are: -- intermediate steps on the path to a virtually-embodied AGI will be easier to show off than intermediate steps on the path to a math-only AGI ... and showing stuff off is important to getting funded... -- it will be easier to teach a virtually-embodied AI, since its world will be more similar to ours -- the virtually-embodied dude will understand us humans better, and likely thus be of more practical use to us Ultimately, I'd like to build all of the above -- and maybe have the virtually-embodied dude serve as a liaison between humans and the math dude So many AGI's to build, so little time!! ben g On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 8:06 PM, Eric Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >But, I suggest, if you examine them, these are all actually humanoid - > clear adaptations > >of human intelligence. Nothing wrong with that. It's just that AGI-ers > often *talk* as if > >they are developing, or could develop, a truly non-human intelligence - a > brain that > >could think in *fundamentally* different ways from humans. > > I think it's an issue of substrate. An AGI built on human-like > cognitive principles -- even a total procedurally-accurate > reimplementation of a human mind -- running on an electronic rather > than organic platform would be a very different kind of intelligence > indeed. > > > ------------------------------------------- > agi > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now > RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ > Modify Your Subscription: > https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com > -- Ben Goertzel, PhD CEO, Novamente LLC and Biomind LLC Director of Research, SIAI [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be first overcome " - Dr Samuel Johnson ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=108809214-a0d121 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
