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From: "Jeffrey E." <jeevacation®gmail.com> To: Steven Sinofsky Subject: Fwd: Brainfood... Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2016 23:25:54 +0000 Forwarded message From: Ben Goertzel Date: Saturday, 2 April 2016 Subject: Brainfood... To: Jeffrey Epstein <[email protected]> And a fuller project plan... https://docs.google.com/document/d/IwzpMCQmDIGT4tJXKemXbNx-ticMQCwIs_Z-E4UNmego/edit On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 5:39 PM, Ben Goertzel <MI > And a bit more project-planning stuff for our envisioned 3-year > OpenCog initiative (courtesy of Cassio) wrote: > On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 11:37 PM, Ben Goertzel <S> wrote: » Hi Jeffrey, >> So, here is some food for thought and discussion... >> We are working on getting OpenCog to control the Hanson Robotics robot >> heads for embodied (or at least "emheadied"!) natural language >> dialogue. This should be working in Summer 2016, maybe sooner. We >> hope to demonstrate this to some extent at AGI-16 which will be in New >> York this July. To give you some flavor of this work I attach our >> Hanson Robotics / OpenCog software plan for the next few months (this >> is work funded by Hanson Robotics). >> In parallel with that, we have been finally getting some examples of >> cognitive synergy to work in OpenCog. >> This paper of ours from AGI-14 ended with a bit of a whimper >> http://agi-conforg/2014/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/harrigan-guiding-agil4 pdf >> however we have recently actually gotten this to work. I.e. we have >> gotten ECAN (neural net type activation spreading) to successfully >> prune the PLN inference tree. If all goes well we will submit a paper >> on this to AGI-16 next week. This shows attention allocation and >> inference working together. Yay! >> This paper of ours from AGI-15 shows PLN being used to estimate the >> truth value of a pattern recognized in data by MOSES (our evolutionary >> program learning algorithm) EFTA00829763 >> http://agi-conflorg/2015/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/agi15_goertzel speculative.pdf » It takes about 24 hours to run in the current OpenCog version. >> Obviously this is not OK but it's a start. >> Next step is to put these two things together, and use ECAN to help >> PLN inference pruning on nontrivial examples like the one from the » above AGI-15 paper. >> The attached PPT on some of our biology work contains two parts >> -- first part is "straightforward" Al-wise but has quite interesting >> results biology-wise: i.e. we used MOSES to figure out genes that >> distinguish supercentenarians from healthy 80 year olds >> -- second part is more interesting AI-wise ... using PLN to generalize » from MOSES models >> Between these papers we see the first concrete examples of "cognitive >> synergy" in OpenCog. They are a bit "toy" but they are also real and >> actually work in the codebase now ;) >> Finally, the other PPT attached shows the plan that Jim Rutt and >> Cassio and I are aiming to carry out over the next 3 years. I am >> not sure if you intersected with Jim at SFI or not... >> http://www.santafe.edu/about/people/profile/Jim%20Rutt >> >> We are aiming to raise $6M for 3 years of work, but I imagine we could >> do it for $4M over 3 years if we made copious use of inexpensive >> overseas folks. Jim will put in at least $500K of the funds himself >> (his foundation gives out $500KJyear, and he is willing to put at >> least 1/3 of that into OpenCog, maybe more). >> The goal of this plan is to make OpenCog-based embodied NLP dialogue >> work extremely well and hold a conversation demonstrating obvious >> understanding of itself and its environment and situation. At the >> core this will require getting cognitive synergy between ECAN, MOSES >> and PLN to work in the context of visual/auditory perception and NLP » dialogue. This will be both a huge AGI advance and an amazing demo >> that will open pretty much any door we want. >> Jim Rutt was a good find, not only because he has been donating a bit >> of $$ (about $150K last year, none to me personally but he has funded >> Nil Geisweiller and Cassio), but because he bring a management and >> organization and business sensibility/experience that complements me >> well. And he knows enough science and CS and has put in enough time >> to thoroughly understand the OpenCog/CogPrime design... » thx! » Ben EFTA00829764 » -- » Ben Goertzel, PhD » http://goertzel.org > -- > Ben Goertzel, PhD > httpgoertzel.org > "I am Ubik. Before the universe was, I am. I made the suns. I made the > worlds. I created the lives and the places they inhabit; I move them > here, I put them there. They go as I say, then do as I tell them. I am > the word and my name is never spoken, the name which no one knows. I > am called Ubik, but that is not my name. I am. I shall always be." -- > Ubik Ben Goertzel, PhD http://goertzel.org "I am Ubik. Before the universe was, I am. I made the suns. I made the worlds. I created the lives and the places they inhabit; I move them here, I put them there. They go as I say, then do as I tell them. I am the word and my name is never spoken, the name which no one knows. I am called Ubik, but that is not my name. I am. I shall always be." -- Ubik please note The information contained in this communication is confidential, may be attorney-client privileged, may constitute inside information, and is intended only for the use of the addressee. It is the property of JEE Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying of this communication or any part thereof is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. 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