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Project PrimeAGi
-sealing a human level o. greater Artificial General Intelligence
lung Goal: by 2025 to 2030
,.)Ing it as an Open Source project for the good of all humanity
Doing it Safely
Raising funds for Phase 1: 3 years. SUS 6 million
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Artificial General Intel'. ence (AGI
A system capable of choosing actions to achieve
a set of complex goals in a variety of complex The ability to transfer learning from one domain
environments using a realistic amount of to other domains.
computation
Human Level AGI
The Turing Test: A text dialogue Al that is indistinguishable from a human in online conversation.
Better Examples of Human Level AGI:
• Wozniak's Coffee Test: when a robot can go into an average American house and figure out how to make
coffee. including identifying the coffee machine. figuring out what the buttons do. finding the coffee in the
cabinet. etc.'
Robot University Student Test 'when a robot can enroll in a human university and take classes in the
same way as humans. and get its degree. then we've created artificial general intelligence
What is an Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) ?
"a system capable of choosing actions to achieve a set of complex goals in a variety of
complex environments using a realistic amount of computation"
"general intelligence is the ability to transfer learning from one domain to other
domains."
Human Level AGI
The Turing Test:
A text dialog Al that is indistinguishable from a human in online conversation.
Better Examples of Human Level AGI:
Wozniak's Coffee Test: "when a robot can go into an average American house and
figure out how to make coffee, including identifying the coffee machine, figuring out
what the buttons do, finding the coffee in the cabinet, etc."
Robot University Student Test: "when a robot can enroll in a human university and
take classes in the same way as humans, and get its degree, then we've created
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artificial general intelligence"
TOO many references to Robots??
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Can on
drive a
Is TRAINED or
• Deep Blue
• AlphaGo
• Facebock Face
• Google Self Driving
• IBM Watson for
IBM Watson for Medical
Compare General with Narrow Artificial
Intelligence
Narrow:
Deep Blue
AlphaGo
Facebook Face Recognizer
Google Self Driving Car
IBM Watson for Jeopardy
IBM Watson for Medical
A Narrow Al can only do one thing. Eg: Deep Blue can't drive a car, nor Google Car
play chess.
A General Al can in principle learn to do anything a human can learn and more.
A Narrow Al is TRAINED or just PROGRAMMED, a General Al is EDUCATED
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Why Now?
AGI has been the implicit long term goal of Al Research since at least 1950
Early Al researchers sought human-level Al. but underestimated the problem
• From the mid-1970s through the mid-aughts. Al research focused on narrow problems.
• Over the last 10 years. narrow Al heavy application in industry, and serious interest in AGI I= has
resurged
Today, for the first time. there exists the necessary convergence of research progress and ever increasing
computational power and looks to make a serious assault on the AGI problem:
• Computi,g hardware and networking have advanced massively
• Software tools and libraries are far more reMed
• Cognitive science has given us an overview of human mind architecture
• Narrow Al and CS now provide a formidable arsenal of algorithms and representations
• Others think so too:
• Kurzweil. Hinton. etc to Google. Andrew Ng to 8aidu. Yann LeCun to Facebook. DeeplAnd acquired by
Google for $500M. Vicarious: $40M funding from Zuckerberg. GoadAl: $10M from Marek Rosa diectly for
human4evel AGI. OpenAl — $18 committed for future work on open-source AL..
Why Now?
AGI has been the implicit long term goal of Al Research since at least 1950
Early Al researchers sought human-level AI, but underestimated the problem
From the mid-1970s through the mid-aughts, Al research focused on narrow
problems,
Over the last 10 years, narrow Al heavy application in industry, and serious
interest in AGI R&D has resurged
Today, for the first time, there exists the necessary convergence of research progress
and ever increasing computational power and tools to make a serious assault on the
AGI problem:
Computing hardware and networking have advanced massively
Software tools and libraries are far more refined
Cognitive science has given us an overview of human mind architecture
Narrow Al and CS now provide a formidable arsenal of algorithms and
representations
Others think so too:
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Kurzweil, Hinton, etc to Google, Andrew Ng to Baidu, Yann LeCun to Facebook,
DeepMind acquired by Google for $500M, Vicarious: $40M funding from Zuckerberg,
GoodAl: $10M from Marek Rosa directly for human-level AGI, OpenAl — $1B
committed for future work on open-source Al...
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Why Us?
Ben Goertzel
• leading thilker. evangelist and organizer in AI community Probabilistic
• 15 books. 100+ papers Logic
• Founder and leader of Networks
• annual AGI Conference
• Open Source AGI Foundation
• OpenCog project
• 2 decades practical AI application experience in robotics. Artificial
Mance. biology. NLP. data minng. etc. General
Intelligence
Core team with 20 year learni-ig curve working together
• Webmi-id -> Novamente -> Opencog -> PrimeAGI
• Opencog is a solid foundation on which to build: significant open
source community with 50 current participants plus 'alumni
association" Forming
General
• A specific point of view: an approach and a plan — not just a general Intelligence, Pan I
AGI research effort — Reasonably well documented in Engineering
General Intelligence. Vols. 1 and 2
• Firm commitment to Open Source
Why Us?
Ben Goertzel
leading thinker, evangelist and organizer in Al community
15 books, 100+ papers
Founder and leader of
annual AGI Conference
Open Source AGI Foundation
OpenCog project
2 decades practical Al application experience in robotics, finance, biology,
NLP, data mining, etc.
Core team with 20 year learning curve working together:
Webmind -> Novamente -> Opencog -> PrimeAGl
Opencog is a solid foundation on which to build: significant open source community
with 50 current participants plus "alumni association"
A specific point of view: an approach and a plan — not just a general AGI research
effort — Reasonably well documented in Engineering General Intelligence, Vols. 1
and 2
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Firm commitment to Open Source
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Open Source
AGI is too important for humanity to be the property of one commercial or governmental entity.
Creating safe. beneficial AGI is a difficult problem and the best solution is more Ikely to emerge if
• a wide variety of bright minds are working together on it
• It is created within an effort with beneficial AGI as the central goal. rather than e.g. profitability of a
particular corporation or watery success of a particular country
High leverage on I-westment through growing network of volunteers. academics. and commercial Open Source
community participants:
• Directly funding 10 developers may ildireclly bring 1000 additional developers funded by other sources
VS
open source
initiative
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Project PrimeAGi
Use and extend the existing Opencog AGI Framework to drive towards at least Human level AG in three phases:
'V2 Rocket of AGI" "Sputnik of AGI" -.Apollo of AGI"
First system to show exciting First system to show Human-level AGI
functionality that demonstrates incontrovertible evidence of AGI
the core principles needed to
make AGI work
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Robot head that holds a simple Robot head that learns via Robot head that holds a simple
conversation with a human. interaction with humans and the conversation with a human.
displaying genuine world. similady to a human child displaying genuine
understanding of its embodiment (including learni-ig new understanding of its embodiment
and context languages and social skills via and context
experiential interaction)
Once an AGI can be taught university-level mathematics and CS, we
begin moving toward profoundly self-improving, self-modifying AGI.
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"V2 Rocket"
Goal of this fundraising round
A realistic-looking. emotionally and socially interactive robot head
which holds a simple conversation with you. The conversation
isn't just a °chat bar but an embodied intelligent dialogue system
Robot dialogue displays genuine understanding of:
• vAio and what it is. including its own history
• who you are
• wt at its physical surroundings are
System able to learn and reason about its environment and
interactions
• Learning/reasoning ability broadly similar to a young human
chid
• In some cases more advanced — 'idiot savant' Ike
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OpenCog: our unfair platform
advantage
Given the current state of software and hardware Other proto-AGI projects lack a platform of comparable
tech. creating a human-level AGI is both appropriateness and quality
• A substantial research project. comprisrig • Academic projects are mainly implemented by grad
multiple coupled sub-research-projects students. with minrnal attention to scalattlity. code quality.
software architecture. etc.
• A large-scale software engineering project
• Corporate projects tend to be implemented on powerful
Executrig on these two aspects in parallel presents distributed frameworks origrially designed for non-AGI
unique challenges
purposes, hence not fully apropos for the goal
We address this issue via inked but separate
development of
• PrimeAGI, a comprehensive. Wei fleshed out
AGI design with deep theoretical grounding
• OpenCog. a software framework and platform
designed for scalable implementation of hybrid
Al systems — very suitable for PrimeAGI. but not
only for PrimeAGI
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Procedural Library
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Atomspace Integrative Technologies
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Resources and Timeline
Aim: the 'VT PrimeAGI system: embodied dialogue with deep reasoning and understanding
Approximately 20 full time technical staff, composed of four teams:
• Artificial General Intelligence R&D
• Product
• System and Tools
• Community and Process
Ongoing collaborations with external researchers
• Three year project with three phases. broadly described as setup. research. delivery.
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Team overview
AGI R&D: Largest team. split into subteams
(Inference. language, learning. attention.
cognitive control, perception, action, memory)
• Product: OSS releases, integration. tuning Im0
• System & tools: infrastructure and architecture
projects, visualization. etc.
• Community: demos. outreach. docs
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Core Team Members
Dr. Ben Goertzel
Jim Run. former Chairman of the Santa Fe Institute. CEO of Network Solutions. Inc.. CTO Thomson-Reuters.
investor and startup entrepreneur
Cassio Pennachin. co-founder and chief architect of OpenCog. co-author of PrimeAGI design. Dr. Goertzel's AI
collaborator since 1998
Dr. Nil Geisweiller. PhD in probabilistic logic. developer on OpenCog and predecessors since 2005. co-author of
PrimeAGl design
Dr. Linas Vepstas. PhD in physics. developer on OpenCog and predecessors since 2007. lead OpenCog
developer since 2006. lead developer for GnuCash. experience developrig for Linux kernel and numerous
major corporate and OSS projects
Andre' Luiz de Senna. co-founder of OpenCog and lead developer of original OpenCog code, Goertzel and
Pennachiris AI collaborator since 1999
Dr. Eddie Monroe. PhD in psychology, developer on OpenCog and predecessors since 2006
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Additional Material
To be added to the presentation as appendices. covering the following topics:
• Atomspace architecture and application
• PrimeAGi design and concepts
• Project plan specifics
• Comparison to compelmg projects
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