Epstein Secrets

us to attractor neural nets. The OpenCog design also contains a mechanism called Psynese (not yet implemented), in- tended to make it easier for one OpenCog instance to translate its personal thoughts into the mental language of another OpenCog instance. This translation process may be quite subtle, sin

representation, with an explicit (uncertain) logical aspect as well as an explicit subsymbolic aspect more analogous to attractor neural nets. The OpenCog design also contains a mechanism called Psynese (not yet implemented), in- tended to make it easier for one OpenCog instance to translate its persona

ive development of humans and human-like AGI systems, but in Table 11.1 we present them in a slightly more general context, using two examples: the Piagetan example of the human (or humanlike) mind as it develops from infancy to maturity; and also the example of the "origin of life" and the development

refining inference control. EFTA00623977 202 11 Stages of Cognitive Development A problem commonly used to illustrate the difference between the Piagetan concrete opera- tional and formal stages is that of figuring out the rules for making pendulums swing quickly versus slowly pins'. If you ask a chil

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

vironment, without requiring anywhere near a complete simulation of realistic physics. EFTA00624075 300 16 AC1 Preschool Fig. 16.1: Part 1 of a Piagetan conservation of volume experiment: a child observes that two glasses obviously have the same amount of milk in them, and then sees the content of on

, etc. And, as typical, not necessarily representative examples of tasks psychologists use to mea- sure cognitive development (drawn mainly from the Piagetan tradition, without implying any assertion that this is the only tradition worth pursuing), consider the following: 1. Which row has more circles- A

us to attractor neural nets. The OpenCog design also contains a mechanism called Psynese (not yet implemented), in- tended to make it easier for one OpenCog instance to translate its personal thoughts into the mental language of another OpenCog instance. This translation process may be quite subtle, since

d representation, with an explicit (uncertain) logical aspect as well as an explicit subsymbolic aspect more analogous to attractor neural nets. The OpenCog design also contains a mechanism called Psynese (not yet implemented), in- tended to make it easier for one OpenCog instance to translate its persona

itive development of humans and human-like AGI systems, but in Table 11.1 we present them in a slightly more general context, using two examples: the Piagetan example of the human (or humanlike) mind as it develops from infancy to maturity; and also the example of the “origin of life’ and the development of

inference control. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013117 202 11 Stages of Cognitive Development A problem commonly used to illustrate the difference between the Piagetan concrete opera- tional and formal stages is that of figuring out the rules for making pendulums swing quickly versus slowly [P58]. If you ask a child

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

, etc. And, as typical, not necessarily representative examples of tasks psychologists use to mea- sure cognitive development (drawn mainly from the Piagetan tradition, without implying any assertion that this is the only tradition worth pursuing), consider the following: 1. Which row has more circles- A

nt, without requiring anywhere near a complete simulation of realistic physics. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013215 300 16 AGI Preschool Fig. 16.1: Part 1 of a Piagetan conservation of volume experiment: a child observes that two glasses obviously have the same amount of milk in them, and then sees the content of one

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

led "cognitive complete- ness" is necessary and sufficient for efficient general intelligence at the level of an inteligent adult human (e.g. at the Piagetan formal level IP ia531). Of course, the above considerations are very, far from a rigorous mathematical proof (or even precise formulation) of this

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

lled “cognitive complete- ness” is necessary and sufficient for efficient general intelligence at the level of an inteligent adult human (e.g. at the Piagetan formal level [Pia53]). Of course, the above considerations are very far from a rigorous mathematical proof (or even precise formulation) of this hyp