" But AGI is not for the faint-hearted, right?"

So true.

On Sun, Jan 3, 2021 at 7:34 PM Ben Goertzel <[email protected]> wrote:

> thanks! as you know a group of us are working on a radical redesign
> (and reimplementation of large parts of) of the OpenCog system
> (Hyperon) , which is currently at the prototype phase.. we are guided
> in large part by pragmatic lessons in working w. the current OpenCog
> version, but we also want to clarify the theoretical foundations
> insofar as possible to maximize the odds that Hyperon is the OC
> version that gets us all the way to human-level AGI ...
>
> In particular, the design of the Hyperon Atomese interpreter -- which
> needs to work effectively in conjunction w/ large distributed &
> decentralized Atomspaces -- presents a lot of tricky design choices
> and having a clear idea of the CS foundations of the cognitive
> algorithms we need seems like it will be helpful for guiding those
> choices...
>
> Of course another challenge is that we want to wrap all this
> mathematical subtlety in a system that is significantly more usable
> and approachable than the current OpenCog version, which is another
> sort of challenge ;) ... But AGI is not for the faint-hearted, right?
>
> ben
>
> On Sun, Jan 3, 2021 at 5:21 AM Jacques Basaldúa
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks for the great reading, Ben. It is amazing how much work and
> thought you are putting into the foundations of opencog. I confess that I
> wasn't familiarized with the idea of paraconsistent logic and it helps
> understanding the brittleness of something too logic based. Carry on with
> the great work.
> >
> > Jacques.
> >
> > On Sat, Jan 2, 2021 at 8:45 PM Ben Goertzel <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >> To kick off the new year ... here is Part 2 of a trilogy of papers I'm
> >> working on ...
> >>
> >>
> >> https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.14474
> >>
> >> this one grounds (key aspects of) PLN in paraconsistent logic, and
> >> thus makes clearer the programming-language Curry-Howard cognate of
> >> PLN (via the known prog-lang cognate of relevant sorts of
> >> paraconsistent logic).   Also some other related stuff like
> >> paraconsistent Formal Concept Analysis...
> >>
> >> Part 3 (another paper) will sketchily represent the core OpenCog
> >> cognitive algorithms as  Galois connections involving
> >> continuation-passing-style metagraph chronomorphisms , where the
> >> metagraph targets are labeled w/ probabilistic/paraconsistent
> >> dependent types as outlined in Part 2 ...
> >>
> >> But I will defer starting on that till I finish some work on the SNet
> >> roadmap and related issues ...
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Ben Goertzel, PhD
> >> http://goertzel.org
> >>
> >> “Words exist because of meaning; once you've got the meaning you can
> >> forget the words.  How can we build an AGI who will forget words so I
> >> can have a word with him?” -- Zhuangzhi++
> >>
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> forget the words.  How can we build an AGI who will forget words so I
> can have a word with him?” -- Zhuangzhi++
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