SANTA = Self-organizing Adaptive NeTwork Algorithm ... yeah, sure, why not? ;D
On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 4:04 AM, Andi <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. -- Ben Goertzel, PhD http://goertzel.org Super-benevolent super-intelligence is the thought the Global Brain is currently struggling to form... -- 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/CACYTDBcv%2BSH-AYD7a3kfcfaWgXjDJ45jU-AVm8TAsCUjHUrnyw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
