OpenCog

The Open Cognition Project

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Here at OpenCog, we're creating an open source Artificial General Intelligence framework, intended to one day express general intelligence at the human level and beyond.

That is:

We're undertaking a serious effort aimed at building a thinking machine.

We have a detailed plan and the ability to execute it, and we're proceeding with the hard work step by step.

Isn't that a little ambitious?

While the OpenCog project is ambitious compared to the routine fare of contemporary academic and industry AI research, it's worth noting that a number of academic research labs have emerged recently with similar goals, including (to list just a few, almost at random):

Science and technology have advanced a lot in recent decades, and we are not the only ones to conclude that the time is ripe for a renewed attack on the grand old problem of strong AI. In our view we are further along than these other projects, and have a more solid plan for reaching the end goal, but you are encouraged to judge for yourself!

The AI field has made disappointingly slow progress toward its original, exciting goals. Our goal at OpenCog is to change this.

How can I help or get involved?

If you're a programmer or computer scientist, you're encouraged to help us by contributing to the code-base and design!

You can also support our efforts by making a tax-deductible donation to the OpenCog Fund, which is managed by the Singularity Institute for AI (SIAI).

Note our limited special offer: the first 1000 people to donate $100 or more to OpenCog will receive one of 1000 autographed first editions of the forthcoming book Building Better Minds: Engineering Beneficial General Intelligence by Ben Goertzel.

Contents

If you're here for the first time, the first thing to read is the about page, which, among other things, describes the difference between the OpenCog Framework and OpenCogPrime.

For those who are interested in the the theory OpenCog Prime is a design for an AGI including:

  • A general Roadmap which will influence and inform the more specific OCF roadmap.
  • A WikiBook presenting the OpenCogPrime design
  • Designs for virtual worlds that will be suitable for education and development of OpenCogPrime based artificial general intelligence

For those that are more interested in the code, Development describes how to to download, run or modify the current code-base. This includes:

For those interested in the applied use of OpenCog, there are a number of OpenCog Applications that people are building (or that are seriously being considered), including:

This wiki may also be used to post information on general AGI topics that are related to, but not necessarily exclusively related to, OpenCog.

News

  • 2009 September - Google Summer of Code 2009 is mostly wrapped up. Thanks to all our students who helped improve OpenCog and those that did original AI research. Project code samples are hosted at Google code.. More specific detail for each project is at GSoC Projects for 2009.
  • 2009 July - OpenCogBuntu 9.04 is finally out!
  • 2009 April - We are currently running another series of tutorials in the run up towards GSoC 2009.
  • 2009 April - Projects for GSoC 2009 have been selected.
  • 2009 March - SIAI (and thus OpenCog) were accepted for Google Summer of Code.
  • 2009 January - Help us design and choose a Logo!
  • OpenCogPrime tutorial sessions on IRC continue weekly through February 2009.
  • more...

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