For information on the AI theory and cognitive science underlying Opencog, see
- A detailed scientific research proposal covering the next few years of intended OpenCogBot work.
A number of papers have been presented at academic AI and computer science conferences discussing various aspects of OpenCog. The following list is far from complete but covers the highlights:
- An Overview of the OpenCogBot Architecture, from ICAI-10
- Cognitive Synergy: A General Principle of Feasible General Intelligence?, from ICCI-09
- Multiple papers by Ben Goertzel and co-authors at the 2006 AGI Workshop
- Program Learning for General Intelligence by Moshe Looks
- Program Representation for General Intelligence by Moshe Looks and Ben Goertzel
- Several papers on Probabilistic Logic Networks were presented by Dr. Matthew Ikle’ at the 2006 AGI workshop and the 2008 and 2009 AGI conferences, but these overlap with the material in the book Probabilistic Logic Networks. A more recent paper on experiential and possible worlds semantics from AGI-10 breaks newer, relevant theoretical ground.
- Uncertain Spatiotemporal Logic for General Intelligence by Nil Geisweiller and Ben Goertzel
- Imitation and Reinforcement Learning in Virtual Worlds
- Economic Attention Networks
- Some papers on OpenCog and related systems for controlling animated virtual agents, at Novamente LLC‘s website
See also the books
- The Hidden Pattern, covering the philosophy of mind underlying OpenCog
- Probabilistic Logic Networks, discussing the concepts and mathematics underlying OpenCog’s uncertain logical reasoning engine
Two further books are expected soon:
- Real-World Reasoning, covering spatiotemporal reasoning in depth
- Building Better Minds vols. I and II, roughly 800 pages all total, detailing the OpenCog AGI design and its associated development roadmap in moderate detail
And the AGI conference proceedings pages contain much relevant material.