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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

ems due to the lack of a more structured high-level cognitive architecture. e LIDA [BF09] is a comprehensive cognitive architecture heavily based on Bernard Baars’ “Global Workspace Theory”. It articulates a “cognitive cycle” integrating various forms of memory and intelligent processing in a single processing

pause to briefly discuss some of the practicalities of work done with the OpenCog system currently implementing parts of the CogPrime architecture. OpenCog, the open-source software framework underlying the "OpenCogPrime" (currently partial) implementation of the CogPrime architecture, has been used for

cessful, this will provide an outstanding platform for ongoing AGI development, as well as a visually appealing and immediately meaningful demo for OpenCog. Specific, particularly simple tasks that are the focus of this project team's current work at time of writing include: • Watch another character

of as a moment of cognition, a cognitive "moment"." 4.5.8 The Global Workspace LIDA is heavily based on the "global workspace" concept developed by Bernard Baars. As this concept is also directly relevant to CogPrime it is worth briefly describing here. In essence Baars' Global Workspace Theory (GWT) is a pa

the present work, it has also been used to control virtual agents in virtual worlds [GEA08]. Prototype work done during 2007-2008 involved using an OpenCog variant called the Open- PetBrain to control virtual dogs in a virtual world (see Figure 6.6 for a screenshot of an OpenPetBrain-controlled virtual d

level of capability will be achievable by simply interposing DeS- TIN (or some other system in its place) as a perception /action “black box” between OpenCog and a robot. Some preliminary experiments in this direction have already been carried out, con- necting the OpenPetBrain to a Nao robot using simpler

of as a moment of cognition, a cognitive "moment"." 4.5.8 The Global Workspace LIDA is heavily based on the “global workspace” concept developed by Bernard Baars. As this concept is also directly relevant to CogPrime it is worth briefly describing here. In essence Baars’ Global Workspace Theory (GWT) is a par

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

chology, 1975. Arm04. J. Andrew Armour. Cardiac neuronal hierarchy in health and disease. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 287:, 2004. Baa97. Bernard Baars. In the Theater of Consciousness: The Workspace of the Mind. Oxford University Press, 1997. Bac09. Joscha Bach. Principles of Synthetic Intelligence