openpsi , in opencog, serves a similar role to BDI ... On Jul 31, 2017 12:47 PM, "Alex" <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have heard about Eva chatbot. So - the question is - are there some > ongoing efforts to build BDI (Belief-Desires-Intentions and maybe + > synthetic emtions) agent in OpenCog? There are MindAgents and several other > agents but I guess that those "agents" are specialised maintenance threads > that updates PLN probability, recency and importance values and those > MindAgents are not BDI agents. > > My domain problem is code generation from the norms and commonsense > knoweldge. And I see that I need two approaches for solving this: > 1)* inference control is the narrow approach* - which premises to select > for inference, which proof startegy to choose (in terms of Coq or > Isabelle/HOL proof assitants) and so on. Inference control is more or less > about small step inference. > 2) activity of BDI agent: I need to formulate goals of my code generation > and I need to ignite agent process that inferes subgoals for my goals, and > further that decomposes those subgoals in activities and that in turn > executes activities, monitors how the subgoals and goals are achieved and > takes appropriate corrective actions. Appartenly - this is* large step > inference control*. As far as I understand the state of the art, then BDI > agents (or autonomous agents in general) are the processes what exactly do > such kind of work - selects goals, subgoals, activities and executes them. > > So - it is crucial to have BDI agent. I have (very small, but growing, > including automatically from the natural language texts) knowledge base in > OpenCog but I need agent activities that make directed inference and > creates desired artifacts.* So - are there implementation of BDI agents > in OpenCog or maybe there are external BDI agents that can process the > OpenCog.* > > There are two interesting points additionaly: > 1) as far as I have checked other cognitive architectures then my guess > that building the agent is their primary goal, i.e. these platforms are > made in the form of agents. > 2) of course, there is ongoing debate - should be build seed of AGI (e.g. > in the form of OpenCog BDI agent) or can we wait that OpenCog knowledge > base grows so large, sophisticated and fine that BDI agent (and very > capable one) emerges from it. So - there is no need for seed. This may > partially explain the situation if there is no ready BDI agent in OpenCog. > > *However - I feel that some agent there should be - how Eva chatbot can > work if it is not agent? * > > -- > 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/5e6e0c68-ed83-4494-96e6-a1c6c1659294%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/opencog/5e6e0c68-ed83-4494-96e6-a1c6c1659294%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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/CACYTDBdJh5yePXyQbzzLsUcTy6wjdJp8t4K5xZfKshsrQnBtYg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
