No challenge today is more important than creating beneficial artificial general intelligence (AGI), with broad capabilities at the human level and ultimately beyond. OpenCog is an open-source software initiative aimed at directly confronting that challenge.
Some exciting news is that we have five Google Summer of Code students working on OpenCog projects this summer.. Integration of ROS (Robot Operating System) with OpenCog: Arsalan Akhter, mentored by Matt Chapman Packages for Ubuntu (and other Unix-like systems) and Cygwin port: Amber Jain, mentored by Nil Geisweiller and David Hart DeSTIN/OpenCog integration: Alexander [...]
I arrived last Monday for a visit to the M-Lab in Hong Kong to find a flurry of activity surrounding OpenCog and Novamente projects. In the span of a few days, several new people would join the team working here, including staff for a Financial Markets AI predictions project and 3 new staff for Biomind, [...]