On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 9:01 PM, Nil Geisweiller <ngeis...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On 10/31/2017 02:52 AM, Mark Nuzz wrote: >> >> I am involved - I have taken time to respond to questions by a number >> of new posters to the group, to the best of my ability, in good faith. > > > That is greatly appreciated. > >> You've expressed, a few posts back, clear frustration with the fact >> that people have close to zero interest in knowledge-bases. That >> doesn't make much sense to me, and the way you put it, shows that it >> is worth checking into. Knowledge bases, being a key component of any >> AGI system, are pretty damned mandatory if you want to experiment with >> an AI system that isn't a blank slate. So when you express an > > > Yes, just note that OpenCog's primary goal isn't to provide pre-built KBs, > other projects do that like SUMO for instance http://www.adampease.org/OP/. > OpenCog's primary goal is to provide the tools that can build such KBs from > textual, sensory or whatever data. That said pre-built KBs can be very > useful, fortunately it's usually not too much work to import them to > atomese. Here's for instance a SUMO importer > > https://github.com/opencog/external-tools/tree/master/SUMO_importer > > and an example using it > > https://github.com/opencog/opencog/tree/master/examples/pln/sumo > > Nil >
Thanks for the responses. This helps my understanding a lot. I wish I could devote more time to this project, Linas did have a point in a sense that it is hard to contribute casually. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "opencog" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to opencog+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to opencog@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/opencog. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/opencog/CAMyYmr9QTxGcF0XNKhRuXp5TKfP80-1L890DrOmJFfV%3D%2B2gvog%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
