OpenCog Framework

Wow - it's been while since the last OpenCog Recap. I think it's time to rectify that, as there's been a lot happening since then! In early April, Ben visited Hong Kong to give guidance to the long-term plan for ...

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In the middle of last year, Xiamen University hosted the first international summer school on Artificial General Intelligence. While several of the core OpenCog developers, and Ben Goertzel were there to teach, it passed by somewhat quietly on our blog … Continue reading →

Note this post is not to condone racism or sexism, merely as an explanation of how it might come about from embodied experience and probabilistic reasoning, as well as how we might protect against it. Things like racism or sexism, or over-generalising on a class of people is one of the more socially inappropriate things you [...]

I (Jared Wigmore aka JaredW) have recently implemented a general forward chainer for PLN. (See Forward and Backward chaining on Wikipedia). Joel had previously implemented a prototype forward chainer, but it only supported deduction. PLN has a wide ... [More] variety of inference rules. They each require different sorts of input atoms, and so a forward (or [...] [Less]

Due to a recent contract involving development on OSX (unrelated to OpenCog unfortunately), I now have a MacBook Pro. Since we often have people attempting to get OpenCog building on OSX, with various levels of success, I decided to go through the process and document it. Along with the help of various people more familiar [...]

OpenCog now has a REST interface that is loaded and runs on port 17034 by default. It has only recently been completed to a functional level where clients can: make POST requests to create a new atom. make POST requests to a specific atom URL to update an atom’s truth value, STI, or LTI. make a query via [...]

Recently I’ve been contemplating a number of potential directions for creating a start-up based on application of OpenCog to a problem or field. One evening, I had an interesting discussion in bed with my partner that was related to licensing such technology. OpenCog is open source, which is my personal preference for the development of [...]