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.
OpenCog / Hanson Robotics hackathon and informal tutorial session Hong Kong Science Park, May 9-20, 2016 Attention all OpenCog developers! — and all wannabe OpenCog developers with reasonable programming/CS background – We are gathering a number of normally-scattered OpenCog and Hanson Robotics software people in Hong Kong during the period May 9-20, to share know-how [...]
Check it out — thanks to Shujing Ke, we now have a “frequent and surprising pattern miner” for OpenCog, which runs either on a single machine or distributed across multiple machines! This is a “greedy algorithm” for exhaustively finding patterns in an Atomspace. In the big picture, it’s intended to complement smarter but even-slower non-greedy [...]