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connecting CogPrime to a virtual world (such as Second Life, Multiverse, or Unity3D, to name sonic of the virtual world / gaming platforms to which OpenCog has already been connected in practice). EFTA00624278 132 26 Perceptual and Motor Hierarchies 26.3.1 Perceiving the Virtual World The most comp

can be used for color vision, and multi-sensory and perception-action integration. The approach presented here begins with two separate Al systems, OpenCog (introduced in Chapter 6.3) and DeSTIN (introduced in Chapter 4.3.1) - both currently implemented in open-source software. Here are the relevant fe

somewhat in the de- tails from the manner in which these things would be incorporated into a standalone DeSTIN, but pursuing the same concepts in an OpenCog integration context. What we describe here is a way to make a "Uniform DeSTIN", in which the internal repre- sentation of perceived visual forms is

to discuss the explicit role of MindAgents in economic transactions. This has to do with the integration of economic attention allocation with the Scheduler that schedules the core MindAgents involved in the basic cognitive cycle. This integration may be done in many ways, but one simple approach is: 1

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

ts. Each instance of a MindAgent has its own AttentionValue, which is used to schedule processor time within the Unit. That scheduling is done by a Scheduler object which controls a collection of worker threads, whose size is a system parameter. The Scheduler aims to allocate worker threads to the MindAg

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

Prime). • CogServer: A piece of software, within OpenCog, that wraps up an Atomspace and a number of MindAgents, along with other mechanisms like a Scheduler for controlling the activity of the MindAgents, and code for important and exporting data from the Atomspace. • Cognitive Equation: The principle,

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

Prime). • CogServer: A piece of software, within OpenCog, that wraps up an Atomspace and a number of MindAgents, along with other mechanisms like a Scheduler for controlling the activity of the MindAgents, and code for important and exporting data from the Atomspace. • Cognitive Equation: The principle,

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

gPrime). e CogServer: A piece of software, within OpenCog, that wraps up an Atomspace and a number of MindAgents, along with other mechanisms like a Scheduler for controlling the activity of the MindAgents, and code for important and exporting data from the Atomspace. e Cognitive Equation: The principle, i