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primary author, Ben Goertzel. Ben will thus begin by expressing his thanks to his primary co-authors, Cassio Pennachin (collaborator since 1998) and Nil Geisweiller (collaborator since 2005). Without outstandingly insightful, deep-thinking colleagues like you, the ideas presented here - let alone the book itsel

overlapping communities of people over a long period of time. The vast bulk of the writing here was done by Ben Goertzel; but Cassio Pennachin and Nil Geisweiller made sufficient writing, thinking and editing contributions over the years to more than merit their inclusion of co-authors. Further, many of the c

g used as the basis for an open-source software project called OpenCog, which is being worked on by software developers around the world. Right now OpenCog embodies only a percentage of the overall CogPrime design as described here. But if OpenCog continues to attract sufficient funding or volunteer in

the ideas presented here are not mere armchair speculation - they are currently being used as the basis for an open-source software project called OpenCog, which is being worked on by software developers around the world. Right now OpenCog embodies only a percentage of the overall CogPrime design as d

validated or refuted via practice. (As a related note: here and there in this book, we will refer to the "current" CogPrime implementation (in the OpenCog framework); in all cases this refers to OpenCog as of late 2013.) To state one believes one knows a workable path to creating a human-level (and po

primary author, Ben Goertzel. Ben will thus begin by expressing his thanks to his primary co-authors, Cassio Pennachin (collaborator since 1998) and Nil Geisweiller (collaborator since 2005). Without outstandingly insightful, deep-thinking colleagues like you, the ideas presented here — let alone the book itself—

le overlapping communities of people over a long period of time. The vast bulk of the writing here was done by Ben Goertzel; but Cassio Pennachin and Nil Geisweiller made sufficient writing, thinking and editing contributions over the years to more than merit their inclusion of co-authors. Further, many of the cha

ing used as the basis for an open-source software project called OpenCog, which is being worked on by software developers around the world. Right now OpenCog embodies only a percentage of the overall CogPrime design as described here. But if OpenCog continues to attract sufficient funding or volunteer inte

at the ideas presented here are not mere armchair speculation — they are currently being used as the basis for an open-source software project called OpenCog, which is being worked on by software developers around the world. Right now OpenCog embodies only a percentage of the overall CogPrime design as des

be validated or refuted via practice. (As a related note: here and there in this book, we will refer to the "current" CogPrime implementation (in the OpenCog framework); in all cases this refers to OpenCog as of late 2013.) To state one believes one knows a workable path to creating a human-level (and pot

ative Architecture for Embodied Artificial General Intelligence, http://wiki.opencog.org/w/CogPrime_Overview • Goertzel, Ben, Cassio Pennachin and Nil Geisweiller (2013). Engineering General Intelligence, vol. 1 and 2. Atlantis Press. • Hunt, Gavin R. (January 1996). "Manufacture and use of hook-tools by New

Role Time Dedication Annual Cost Dr. Ben Goertzel Team leader 75% $75K Cosmo Harrigan Lead programmer, OpenCog code expert 75% $60K Dr. Nil Geisweiller MOSES/PLN specialist 50% $40K Dr. Joscha Bach Expert in motivated behavior 20% -- Dr. Matthew lkle' ECAN/ PLN specialist 45% $40K Juni

the core of the CogPrime Artificial General Intelligence design, an integrative cognitive architecture that is partially implemented in the current OpenCog software system. The proposed project would explore and attempt to validate the cognitive synergy hypothesis, via utilizing the OpenCog system to co

the current OpenCog software system. The proposed project would explore and attempt to validate the cognitive synergy hypothesis, via utilizing the OpenCog system to control a virtual parrot in a game world, and studying how the parrot performs on virtual-world implementations of various "animal-level

ative Architecture for Embodied Artificial General Intelligence, http://wiki.opencog.org/w/CogPrime_Overview • Goertzel, Ben, Cassio Pennachin and Nil Geisweiller (2013). Engineering General Intelligence, vol. 1 and 2. Atlantis Press. • Hunt, Gavin R. (January 1996). "Manufacture and use of hook-tools by New

Role Time Dedication Annual Cost Dr. Ben Goertzel Team leader 75% $75K Cosmo Harrigan Lead programmer, OpenCog code expert 75% $60K Dr. Nil Geisweiller MOSES/PLN specialist 50% $401( Dr. Joscha Bach Expert in motivated behavior 20% -- Dr. Matthew lkle' ECAN/ PLN specialist 45% $40K Jun

the core of the CogPrime Artificial General Intelligence design, an integrative cognitive architecture that is partially implemented in the current OpenCog software system. The proposed project would explore and attempt to validate the cognitive synergy hypothesis, via utilizing the OpenCog system to co

the current OpenCog software system. The proposed project would explore and attempt to validate the cognitive synergy hypothesis, via utilizing the OpenCog system to control a virtual parrot in a game world, and studying how the parrot performs on virtual-world implementations of various "animal-level

oertzel, the overall work and underlying ideas have been very much a team effort, with major input from the sec- ondary authors Cassio Pennachin and Nil Geisweiller, and large contributions from various other contributors as well. Nlany chapters have specifically indicated coauthors; but the contributions from

ledge and intuition regarding CogPrime. For example, beyond the ideas presented here, there is a body of work on the OpenCog wiki site, and then the OpenCog codebase itself. More extensive introductory remarks may be found in Preface of Part 1, including a brief history of the book and acknowledgements

sign. No doubt it will evolve in some respects as implementation progresses; one of the principles kept in mind during the design and development of OpenCog was modular- ity, enabling substantial modifications to particular parts of the framework to occur without requiring wholesale changes throughout th

itecture for embodied artificial general intelligence. In Proceedings of IEEE Symposium on Human-Level Al, Singapore, 2013. CCC+ 11. Ben Goertzel, Nil Geisweiller, Lucio Coelho, Predrag Janicic, and Cassio Pennachin. Real World Reasoning. Atlantis, 2011. CH11. N Garg and J Henderson. Temporal restricted bolt

his nature that can be effective in this context We have not yet done any sophisticated experiments in this regard - our current experiments using OpenCog to control robots involve cruder integration of OpenCog with perceptual and motor subsystems, rather than the tight hybridization described in Chapt

obabilistic evolutionary program learn- Mg is an effective method The probabilistic evolutionary program learning method we have worked with most in OpenCog is MOSES, and significant evidence has been gathered showing it to be dramatically more effective than genetic programming on relevant classes of p

n second life. In Proc.of the First Conf. on AC1. IOS Press, 2008. Cer99. Michael Gershon. The Second Brain. Harper, 1999. CCC+11. Ben Goertzel, Nil Geisweiller, Lucio Coelho, Predrag Janicic, and Cassio Pennachin. Real World Reasoning. Atlantis, 2011. CCK02. T. Cilovich, D. Griffin, and D. Kahneman. Heuri

zed Terms • Abduction: A general form of inference that goes from data describing something to a hypothesis that accounts for the data. Often in an OpenCog context, this refers to the PLN abduction rule, a specific First-Order PLN rule (If A implies C, and B implies C, then maybe A is B), which embodie

bility. EFTA00624100 Appendix A Glossary A.1 List of Specialized Acronyms This includes acronyms that are commonly used in discussing CogPrime, OpenCog and related ideas, plus sonic that occur here and there in the text for relatively ephemeral reasons. • AA: Attention Allocation • ADF: Automatica

s in second life. In Proc.of the First Conf. on AGI. IOS Press, 2008. Ger99. Michael Gershon. The Second Brain. Harper, 1999. GGCr11. Ben Goertzel, Nil Geisweiller, Lucio Coelho, Predrag Janicic, and Cassio Pennachin. Real World Reasoning. Atlantis, 2011. GGKO02. T. Gilovich, D. Griffin, and D. Kahneman. Heuris

HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013240 Appendix A Glossary A.1 List of Specialized Acronyms This includes acronyms that are commonly used in discussing CogPrime, OpenCog and related ideas, plus some that occur here and there in the text for relatively ephemeral reasons. AA: Attention Allocation ADF: Automatically De

alized Terms Abduction: A general form of inference that goes from data describing something to a hypothesis that accounts for the data. Often in an OpenCog context, this refers to the PLN abduction rule, a specific First-Order PLN rule (If A implies C, and B implies C, then maybe A is B), which embodies