Epstein Secrets

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

haphazard or opportunistic combination of algorithms and data structures. At bottom it is motivated by the patternist philosophy of mind laid out in Ben Goertzel’s book The Hidden Pattern [Goe06al, which was in large part a summary and reformulation of ideas presented in a series of books published earlier by th

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

e condition may be observing a cat. In this case, the corresponding Concept vertex in the mind of Ben Goertzel is the pattern of activity observed in Ben Goertzel’s brain when his eyes are open and he’s looking in the direction of a cat. The notion of pattern of activity can be made rigorous using mathematical pa

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

ing the activity of the MindAgents, and code for important and exporting data from the Atomspace. e Cognitive Equation: The principle, identified in Ben Goertzel’s 1994 book "Chaotic Logic", that minds are collections of pattern-recognition elements, that work by iteratively recognizing patterns in each other an