Yesterday I managed to get my hands on a copy of the Probabilistic Logic Networks book and started reading it. Some background: the proprietary Novamente Cognition Engine and its open-source cousin OpenCog are early designs for a true artificial intelligence. For a while now, I've thought that I could do something NCE/OpenCog-related for my Master's thesis (in about two years from now). Of course, my expertise is nowhere good enough to evaluate whether an AI project really has the potential... read more