Maybe a year ago, I got a brief pitch of some Watson robot code, to which
my reaction was "OMG they are reinventing ROS from scratch, badly". My
super-quick skim of this code suggests that its the very same code.  I
might be very wrong, but I looked at this:

https://github.com/watson-intu/self/tree/develop/src/sensors
which offers camera, microphone, sonar ... about 4-5 sensors. vs. ROS
offers hundreds or more?

https://github.com/watson-intu/self/tree/develop/src/models
which offers definitions for a vertex, edge and graph. WTF. This seems like
an undergrad homework problem. What am I missing?

The planning code here:
https://github.com/watson-intu/self/tree/develop/src/planning
is only slightly more extensive, but seems to be a freshman attempt, easily
outclassed by 30-year-old software like
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLIPS

A survey of modern approaches is here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic_programming
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_planning
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constraint_satisfaction_problem

I randomly picked through the other directories, and ... was not impressed.
My general impression is that its like something one might have seen in the
1980's-1990's, in the dark of AI winter. SGI had whizzier stuff back then,
whizzier stuff could be found at SIGGRAPH. Am I missing the forest for the
trees? Is there anything here?

--linas

On Sat, Jul 15, 2017 at 10:24 AM, Ben Goertzel <[email protected]> wrote:

> Having code "for" all those things doesn't mean much really does it ..
> it's easy to create a bunch of OO classes with fancy
> cognitive-sounding names, and then stick some hand-coded rules or
> supervised-trained ML models in objects instantiating each of the
> classes... this may give you a way to architect software programs that
> are cognitive-ish in information flow and that do stuff, but it won't
> give you a thinking machine, not by a long shot...
>
> ben
>
> On Sat, Jul 15, 2017 at 11:17 PM, Ed Pell <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Holy Cow! They have released this architecture diagram.
> >
> > https://github.com/watson-intu/self-docs/blob/develop/
> Logical%20View%20(Key%20Classes).jpg
> >
> > I wonder how much of that has code.
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