AI technology has advanced a long way since 2008 when OpenCog was founded, and our collective understanding of the AGI problem has advanced as well. AGI has also become big business with the advent of projects like Google Deep Mind and OpenAI. However, the best of today’s practical AI systems still fall very far short of human minds in terms of general intelligence.
The researchers and developers behind the OpenCog project believe that the OpenCog approach — a dynamic, weighed/labeled generalized-hypergraph knowledge store synergetically acted on by multiple AI algorithms designed according to multiple AI paradigms, acting according to a shared formal semantics and within a well-designed cognitive architecture — is fit to serve as the core of a workable approach to AGI at the human level and beyond.
If this is correct, it is amazing — but even if so, there is a lot of work required to get from here to there. This OpenCogCon event aims to present some insights into where we are now with OpenCog — and what may make sense for us to do next, to most effectively and rapidly make the leap from our current position toward true AGI.
https://opencog.org/2020/07/virtual-opencogcon-july-15-16/