reinforcement learning mode, to learn small programs that will guide the virtual parrot in achieving its goals (where its goals are managed via the OpenPsi motivational system inside OpenCog, loosely inspired by Joscha Bach's MicroPsi system). • Use of ECAN to learn associational relationships between

tools that Joscha and I have built over the last years), and >> > aim to scientifically validate our approach (a subset of OpenCog, >> > including OpenPsi which is modeled on Joscha' Psi/MicroPsi model and >> > which Joscha would like to help evolve further) in the context of a >>> virtual animal....

powerful tools that Joscha and I have built over the last years), and aim to scientifically validate our approach (a subset of OpenCog, including OpenPsi which is modeled on Joscha' Psi/MicroPsi model and which Joscha would like to help evolve further) in the context of a virtual animal.... Specifica

reinforcement learning mode, to learn small programs that will guide the virtual parrot in achieving its goals (where its goals are managed via the OpenPsi motivational system inside OpenCog, loosely inspired by Joscha Bach's MicroPsi system). • Use of ECAN to learn associational relationships between

reinforced with repletion, and weaker with no repetition. • The use of several algorithms all functioning at the same time: "cognitive synergy" • OpenPsi—inspired by Joscha Bach's MicroPsi Project: the use of motivation tanks that can be restored or depleted: energy, water, integrity, Affiliation, cer

werful tools that Joscha and I have built over the last years), and > aim to scientifically validate our approach (a subset of OpenCog, > including OpenPsi which is modeled on Joscha' Psi/MicroPsi model and > which Joscha would like to help evolve further) in the context of a > virtual animal.... Speci

chActSchema and SpeechActTriggers) corresponding to fine-grained types of speech act • Dialogue control guided by general cognitive control system (OpenPsi, running within Open Cog) • SpeechActSchema and SpeechActTriggers, in some cases, will internally consult proba- bilistic inference, thus supplying

cessing. • Defrosting: Restoring, into the RAM portion of an Atomspace, an Atom (or set thereof) previously saved to disk. • Demand: In CogPrime's OpenPsi subsystem, this term is used in a manner inherited from the Psi model of motivated action. A Demand in this context is a quantity whose value the s

that recognizes patterns in the hierarchies and passes them to the Atomspace; and imprints patterns from the Atomspace on the hierarchies); and also OpenPsi, a special dynam- ical framework for choosing actions based on motivations. Above the Atomspace we have a host of cognitive processes, which act on

(that recognizes patterns in the hierarchies and passes them to the Atomspace; and imprints patterns from the Atomspace on the hierarchies); and also OpenPsi, a special dynam- ical framework for choosing actions based on motivations. Above the Atomspace we have a host of cognitive processes, which act on t