Comment 2 for bug 255245

PLN + Attention Allocation are a good idea. The Pet Brain is a
horrible first tutorial idea.

On Aug 6, 2008, at 8:58 AM, Ben Goertzel wrote:

> I wonder if it makes sense to wait for the tutorial till PLN is
> usefully
> integrated. Because, PLN actually does interesting-looking,
> transparently AI-ish stuff, whereas without PLN there, it's pretty
> much
> just a framework that doesn't do anything.
>
> Either that or we should wait till the Rex / Pet Brain stuff is fully
> integrated ... but the problem with that is, it's more complex with a
> lot of moving parts, hence perhaps less suitable for a tutorial...
>
> Attention allocation is nice, but, without some other AI process going
> on, it's not going to seem too pointful to anyone...
>
> --
> tutorial needed for opencog framework
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/255245
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> Status in OpenCog Framework: Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> The OpenCog Framework should be released with a good tutorial for
> beginners, similar to the excellent "OpenBiomind: A Step-by-Step
> Tutorial" (tutorial.pdf) at http://openbiomind.googlecode.com/files/openbiomind-extras_0.60.zip
>
> Note that a prerequisite for beginning substantive work on this bug
> is to find an interesting and suitable example application,
> potentially utilizing in-development components from OpenCog Prime
> which is slated for release some many months (at least) *after* the
> OpenCog Framework, so it's okay if pre-release code and properly
> licensed datasets are included with the tutorial bundle (as with the
> openbiomind-extras example above).
>
> Please discuss ideas on #opencog and http://opencog.org/wiki/Talk:OpenCogFrameworkTutorial

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