Epstein Secrets

, dealing with with a variety of general conceptual issues related to the engineering of advanced AGI, as well as presenting a brief overview of the CogPrime design for Artificial General Intelligence. Now here in Part 2 we plunge deep into the nitty-gritty, and describe the multiple aspects of the CogPr

MindAgents, e.g. - activation affects action selection. For instance this may be effected by a process that, each cycle, causes a certain amount of STICurrency to pass to schema satisfying certain properties (those involving physical action, or terminating rapidly). The amount of currency passed in this wa

22.12 Coals and Time 81 22.12 Goals and Time The CogPrime system maintains an explicit list of "Ubergoals", which as will be explained in Chapter 24, receive attentional currency which they may then allocat

deliver ball play_fetch where SequentielAND A B is the conjunction of A and B but with B occurring after A in time. Then, if play_fetch has $10 in STICurrency, it may know it has $10 to spend on a combination EFTA00624262 116 24 Economic Coal and Action Selection of get_ball and deliver_ball. In this c

49.6 Cognitive Processes 481 CogPrime's multi-memory design, it's natural to consider CogPrime's cognitive processes in terms of which memory subsystems they focus on (although, this is

• Attentional Currency: Short Term Importance and Long Term Importance values are implemented in terms of two different types of artificial money, STICurrency and LTICur- rency. Theoretically these may be converted to one another. • Attentional Focus: The Atoms in an OpenCog Atomspace whose ShortTennImport

concepts in one of Douglas HoEstadter's books. Naturally, real concept heterarchies are far more large, complex and tangled than even this one. In CogPrime, ECAN enforces heterarchy via building SymmetricHebbianLinks, and PLN by building SimilarityLinks, IntensionalSimilarityLinks and ExtensionalSimilar

• Attentional Currency: Short Term Importance and Long Term Importance values are implemented in terms of two different types of artificial money, STICurrency and LTICur- rency. Theoretically these may be converted to one another. • Attentional Focus: The Atoms in an OpenCog Atomspace whose ShortTennImport

ue Sam Adams and his colleagues at IBM have created a cognitive architecture called Joshua Blue [AABLO2], which has some significant similarities to CogPrime. Similar to our current research direction with CogPrime, Joshua Blue was created with loose emulation of child cognitive development in mind; and, a

al memory (scheme net)|procedures in ProcedureRepository; and network of SchemaNodes in the Atomspace action selection (behavior net) propagation of STICurrency from goals to actions, and action selection process ransient episodic memory perceptual atoms entering AT with high STI, which rapidly decreases in

n concepts in one of Douglas Hofstadter’s books. Naturally, real concept heterarchies are far more large, complex and tangled than even this one. In CogPrime, ECAN enforces heterarchy via building SymmetricHebbianLinks, and PLN by building SimilarityLinks, IntensionalSimilarityLinks and ExtensionalSimilari

ng. Attentional Currency: Short Term Importance and Long Term Importance values are implemented in terms of two different types of artificial money, STICurrency and LTICur- rency. Theoretically these may be converted to one another. Attentional Focus: The Atoms in an OpenCog Atomspace whose ShortTermImportan