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Open Source Project Aims to Create Human Level Artificial Intelligence

SingularityHub Staff
Sep 06, 2008
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The Short:

Researches across the globe are making daily advances towards the development of human level artificial intelligence, but sadly the algorithms and the software that represent these advances often remain hidden within researcher's computer labs, out of reach for others to review and build upon.

Enter OpenCog, an entire website dedicated to the development and distribution of artificial intelligence tools, software, and resources that are open source and freely available for anyone to use and modify.  Opencog's ultimate goal is to develop true human level artificial intelligence, but even if Opencog fails to achieve this most ambitious of goals the project still seems poised to bring many other significant benefits to the AI community.

Opencog was only recently launched in 2008 and at present appears to have a small following.  The project offers the promise of an open and novel approach to developing and sharing new advances in AI, and it will be exciting to see it evolve and gain momentum in the coming years.

The Long:

Opencog is led by prominent AI scientist Ben Goertzel who will be presenting the opencog project at the Singularity Summit 2008.  Opencog is a multifaceted project with multiple goals and initiatives.  One of the most prominent components of the project is called the opencog framework.  From the opencog website:

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Opencog is also developing a collection of specific AI tools (e.g. learning and reasoning components) to be used in creating AI systems.  From the site:

The key tools initially provided as part of OpenCog are

  1. The RelEx natural language comprehension system
  2. The MOSES probabilistic evolutionary learning system
  3. The PLN (Probabilistic Logic Networks) framework
  4. A system for Economic Attention Allocation and associative memory

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