Contributing to OpenCog

[Pranav Deshpande]

Hello, I am an electrical and electronics engineering student and I just finished my sixth semester. I have built AI projects such as this chess engine: https://github.com/universecoder/Horus-Chess-Engine/

I would like to contribute to OpenCog. What aspects of AI and ML do I need to know to contribute; or can I just get started? I wanted some guidance.

Regards,
Pranav

[Nil Geisweiller]

Hi,

On 05/05/2017 05:14 PM, Pranav Deshpande wrote:
> I would like to contribute to OpenCog. What aspects of AI and ML do I
> need to know to contribute; or can I just get started? I wanted some
> guidance.

it all depends on what you'd like to do, if you desire to go to the
bottom of it I think knowing probability and logic (say predicate logic)
is very good. Having a broad culture about AI helps too, including
theoretical stuff like Solomonoff induction. Ben and Linas would
probably tell you that category theory is helpful :-) (I know too little
about it and I've started reading "Category Theory for the Siences").
More directly linked to the OpenCog design you may want to read
https://www.amazon.com/Engineering-General-Intelligence-Part-Cognitive/dp/9462390266/
if you'd rather not spend money on it we can provide you an electronic
draft that is essentially like the book. The wiki itself is full of
information, browse it at will.

Regarding programming languages, the core is in C++ and it supports
Scheme, Python and Haskell as binding languages.

You don't necessarily need to know all that to contribute though,
reading the wiki and giving your feedback, correcting when you can is
very helpful.

Nil

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[Pranav Deshpande]

Hello and thank you for the reply. I will start reading the book as you suggest, Could you please send me the electronic draft?
Also, based on my current Github repo, which part do you think is appropriate for me to contribute to?

Regards,
Pranav

[Nil Geisweiller]

Great wikipage containing what you're looking for and more

http://wiki.opencog.org/w/Background_Publications

Nil

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