http://www.novamente.net/blog Artificial General Intelligence Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:46:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Interestingly enough, VentureBeat was inspired by the launch of the OpenCogPrime wikibook to do an article on Novamente and OpenCog generally:   http://venturebeat.com/2008/08/05/can-novamentes-virtual-dogs-make-a-nintendog-look-dumb/ I talked to the writer of the article a while, and while he had to keep the article fairly short and to the point, he was actually quite savvy ... http://www.novamente.net/blog/?p=15 It's been a while since I posted anything here, and I won't try to do justice to everything that has happened for Novamente LLC in the last months. Instead, this blog post just highlights a few of the many exciting pieces of news in the Novamente universe. First of ... http://www.novamente.net/blog/?p=14 (On the Merits of Parrots ... or: "The Wisdom of Crowds" as a Strategy for Educating Young AI's) In this blog post I'll enlarge upon a point I made during my recent talk at TransVision 2007 (see a recent blog post by Bruce discussing this talk), regarding the potential of virtual ... http://www.novamente.net/blog/?p=9 [Photo credit: George P. Dvorsky's Blog - Sentient Developments - Article: TransVision 2007: the good, the bad and the ugly] Fun happenings this week! During Transvision 2007, Ben Goertzel spoke (transcript-audio) on a panel w/ Marvin Minsky and Second Life's Philip Rosedale. The following quote from Ronald Bailey's Reason ... http://www.novamente.net/blog/?p=8 Ben and I had the pleasure of visiting the sprightly Googleplex on May 30th, 2007 where Ben delivered a 60 minute Google TechTalk (Artificial General Intelligence: Now Is the Time) and was generously introduced by Google's Director of Research, Peter Norvig (yes, that Peter Norvig). Ben recounted the occasion ... http://www.novamente.net/blog/?p=7 Hi all, This brief blog post is just to announce that Novamente LLC and Electric Sheep Company have started a collaboration on some projects applying AI to virtual worlds. We are very excited about this collaboration: Electric Sheep is a great company; and their expertise in virtual worlds complements our expertise in ... http://www.novamente.net/blog/?p=6 Hi all -- Ben Goertzel here, with some minor news: I have recently written two articles for kurzweilai.net, and the first one has just appeared! It's called "ARTIFICIAL GENERAL INTELLIGENCE: NOW IS THE TIME", and can be viewed at http://www.kurzweilai.net/meme/frame.html?main=/articles/art0701.html It touches a bit on Novamente, and long-term applications thereof (artificial scientists, digital twins ... http://www.novamente.net/blog/?p=5 Greetings, Novamente blog readers! I have good news regarding a new collaboration between Ben Goertzel, myself and the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence (SIAI). Over the past few years, SIAI has done a remarkable job of attracting top talent to focus on its mission. Be sure to ... http://www.novamente.net/blog/?p=4 Hi all, Welcome to the new Novamente blog! Although it's a "corporate blog" the idea is definitely not to have an impersonal corporate communication style -- blog entries will be written by particular people within the company presenting their own perspectives on events and ideas of relevance to Novamente LLC. ... http://www.novamente.net/blog/?p=3