randme openpsi to ... decider?

[Linas Vepstas]

The openpsi name is problematic:

-- Joscha Bach's psi is also open-source

-- openpsi is no longer the main psychological modeller for opencog

(the "component process model" now is)

This suggests that a better name is needed.

The functions implemented in openpsi perform a very important task of selecting and choosing and deciding what to do, based on the need to fulfill certain goals.   The goals need not be psychological goals, and the chosen "things" are usually "actions" but not necessarily so.

"action selector" is one but its boring. "action formulator and selector" ASAF ASF AFS AFAS is aonther mouthful.

How about "the decider"? 

pluses: its short, its a term not used anywhere else in the system, so no confusion about which subsystem it refers to.  Its unique enough that there is not even a collision with most OS or compsci theory and no confusion with NN or ANN theory.  Yet you can guess what it does, given just its one-word name.

minuses: unfortunate reference to dubya.

--linas

[Ben Goertzel]

Yeah, we just discussed this F2F. It seems that "OpenPsi" as
currently used sorta wraps up two things...

1) The action selector and related tools, which are generic and would
be used for a theorem-prover or various other sorts of AIs that have
no close resemblance to the human mind

2) A model of human-like psychology / emotion / action-regulation,
which at this point is a custom blend of Psi and the CPM (Component
Process Model), and may get even more human-specific aspects due to
the Hanson Robotics collaboration

...

.. and I agree w/ LInas it would be useful to separate these cleanly.
Both are valuable but they are distinct.

An accurate but long/boring name for 1) would be "Action Selector and
Formulator" ... which can fairly enough be abbreviated "action
selector" I guess ...

A worry with "Decider" is that PLN also decides things, but in the
declarative rather than imperative sense.... but... hmmm...

An accurate but long/boring name for 2) would be "Human-Like
Regulation" I guess ...

Name brainstorms will be appreciated ;)

ben

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Ben Goertzel, PhD
http://goertzel.org

Super-benevolent super-intelligence is the thought the Global Brain is
currently struggling to form...

[Andi]

Psi model of Human Motivation and Emotion -> PHME

I took this line just from the wiki page of openPsi.

But I like Decider. It is dry and crisp.

Maybe: Human like Decision Finder -> HDF or AHDF the Artficial one.

Or: HASF the "Human like" in combination with one of linas proposals

--Andi