Ben, since it is your design: "-- CogPrime for my own specific AGI design, based on cognitive synergy between PLN, MOSES, ECAN and so forth"
It should be named as what it is and at what you want it to be: *BensSanta* And it will be praised and talked about for thousands of years, by people sitting around their fires, telling tales about how it began...... Belive me: everybody in the scene will remenber this name and what it means and who made the design and with what tools it was made - the opencog toolset. In this way the first gift from BensSanta will be that more people know about and remember opencog... Andi Am Sonntag, 31. Januar 2016 08:18:46 UTC+1 schrieb Ben Goertzel: > > Hi all, > > So, I could use y'all's help in some name-brainstorming... > > Way back in the days of yore, before self-driving cars and deep > learning were all the rage and Silicon Valley overlords talked about > billions for open-source AI, before national leaders and > mega-corporations thought AGI was a meaningful pursuit, back when we > were running around in loincloths and trying to program AGI using > abacuses carved from mammoth bones ... way back then, in the chaotic > mess of my livingroom in Rockville MD, I crafted the following > fiendishly clever naming scheme: > > -- OpenCog for the general framework, e.g. Atomspace, MindAgents, > etc., that I wanted to create via open-sourcing the key bits of > Novamente Cognition Engine ... as a toolkit that many people could use > to experiment with their various proto-AGI approaches... > > -- CogPrime for my own specific AGI design, based on cognitive synergy > between PLN, MOSES, ECAN and so forth > > -- OpenCogPrime for the implementation of CogPrime within OpenCog > (since CogPrime as an abstract AGI design could be implemented in > other non-OpenCog frameworks as well...) > > ... > > In hindsight, this "clever" naming scheme was not one of my better > inventions and it generally causes more confusion than anything > else.... What has happened is that "CogPrime" is never used and > "OpenCog" is used to mean both the framework and the AGI design and > various superpositions and blends between those two things... > > So a few of us have decided it would be a Good Thing to have a new and > distinct name for "CogPrime", so as to clearly distinguish it from the > underlying OpenCog framework... > > The door is open for any name anyone can come with, so if you have any > suggestions please post to the list.... Of course, if nobody comes > up with anything more appealing we can always stick with mediocre old > "CogPrime" ... > > I am indeed aware of the weakness of the whole concept of > "branded/named AI architecture" ... after all, each branded > architecture mixes up concepts from all over the place, and the > underlying algorithms and structures are often more important than the > specific branded combination. Yet we live in a world dominated by > humans still, and given the peculiarities of human psychology, having > zingy names and brands to associate with things is helpful for > communication, fundraising, and other human-society necessities.... > so it goes... > > thanks! > ben > > > > > > -- > Ben Goertzel, PhD > http://goertzel.org > > "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one > persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all > progress depends on the unreasonable man." -- George Bernard Shaw > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "opencog" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/opencog. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/opencog/a9924088-7122-4572-9b17-5441668a1653%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
