What is the relation between OpenCOG and Expert System at this stage in 2017 ? If OpenCOG is not basically an Expert System, does it exhibit all Expert System's properties?
I would be grateful if you Ben could provide an answer that elucidates this, as I've found some of your states comparing Watson and OpenCOG: *"Watson is basically a huge expert system with a knowledge base, fueled by information extraction."* *"OpenCOG, once properly developed, will be a completely different sort of animal than Watson. Watson is ultimately a one-trick pony – and an architecture that can be used to create a series of other one-trick ponies, with a lot of human energy and innovation required for each. For instance, to make a Watson type system for the medical field, as IBM is now striving to do, is not mainly a matter of giving Watson medical data and having it learn. It involves a massive amount of domain-specific human effort. This is because Watson is not a general intelligence – it lacks the ability to generalize. But the whole point of an AGI architecture like OpenCog is that it will have the ability to achieve its goals in complex environments (like the real world) by GENERALIZING from its prior experience, rather than having to be specifically reprogrammed for each new kind of situation it has to deal with.*" (Source <https://nextbigfuture.wordpress.com/2013/07/15/ben-goertzel-is-on-a-mission-to-build-an-ai-toddler/> ) At the first view it looks like AtomSpace is basically a Knowledge Base, and the MindAgents are Inference Engines, that makes OpenCOG look like an Expert System according to this definition: *"An expert system is divided into two subsystems: the inference engine and the knowledge base. The knowledge base represents facts and rules. The inference engine applies the rules to the known facts to deduce new facts"* (Source <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expert_system>) Thanks, Andrei -- 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/e8693b06-ef47-418f-8074-1785a079eb1b%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
