OpenCog Framework

Ben Goertzel has recently posted an OpenCog progress update on the Singularity Institute’s blog. It’s worth checking out if you want an overview of all the interesting contributions that are being made.

This summer OpenCog was chosen by Google to participate in the Google Summer of Code project: Google funded 11 students from around the world to work on OpenCog coding projects under the supervision of experienced mentors associated with the OpenCog ... [More] project, and the associated OpenBiomind project Applying for GSoC was David Hart’s idea originally; and, David [...] [Less]

I hack, heads-down, on link-grammar every now and then. Yesterday, I fixed another round of broken parse rules: making sure that sentences like “John is altogether amazingly quick.” “That one is marginally better” “I am done working” “I asked Jim a question” “I was told that crap, too” all parse correctly. Solving these required adding new [...]

I’m not a particular regular updater with this particular blog (too many things have been demanding my attention lately), but I thought I’d drop a note to say I’ll be off the radar for a week or so… I’ll be attending Burning man. I’m immensely looking forward to this as this is the first year in [...]

I have decided to run a series of IRC sessions focused on collectively discussing the OpenCogPrime design, via working through the OpenCogPrime wikibook and discussing the ideas therein chapter-by-chapter. Details are at ... [More] http://opencog.org/wiki/OpenCogPrime:TutorialSessions The sessions will be weekly and will start September 10 (I’ll be out of town the first week of Sep, and figure too many [...] [Less]

I implemented the Complete Pipeline task for OpenBiomind-GUI. Following is the snapshot of the wizard:

The purpose of this blog post is to announce the release of a wikibook outlining a design for a specific AGI system intended to be built on top of the OpenCog framework. This system design is called OpenCogPrime, and is heavily based on the Novamente ... [More] Cognition Engine design under development at Novamente LLC during 2001-2008. The OpenCogPrime [...] [Less]

OpenBiomind generates a Graphviz dot file as an output of GraphFeatures task. In the GUI, we thought to provide a image of the graph too. This was simply achieved using the dot utility provided by Graphviz.Following snippet shows a sample usage ... [More] (working example can be seen in this snippet was modified from revision 46 of GraphFeaturesWizard):// final String graphvizDotUtilityPath = ...// final String imageType = ... // "png", "gif", or other supported type// final String sourceDotFilePath = ...// final String outputImageFilePath = ...final List commandList = new ArrayList ();commandList.add(graphvizDotUtilityPath);commandList.add("-T" imageType);commandList.add(sourceDotFilePath);commandList.add("-o" outputImageFilePath);// java.lang.Process// java.lang.ProcessBuilderfinal Process process = new ProcessBuilder(commandList).start();Following is the snapshot of a workbench after opening the graph (image): [Less]

I implemented the Graph Features task for OpenBiomind-GUI. Following is the snapshot of the wizard:

Here is the preference dialog of the application.