Building Better Minds. Building Better Minds, by Dr.
Ben Goertzel with co-authors Cassio Pennachin and Nil Geisweiller (and many other co-authors for particular chapters), is a book with the simple objective of explaining "how to build a thinking machine. " It began as a single volume but has now split into Volume I: A Path to Beneficial Artificial General Intelligence Volume II: An Architecture for Beneficial Artificial General Intelligence Note: the image to the right was created "just for fun" before the book was split into two volumes and the co-authors were added. The Open Cognition Project. OpenCog is a unique and ambitious open-source software project.
Our aim is to create an open source framework for Artificial General Intelligence, intended to one day express general intelligence at the human level and beyond. That is: We're undertaking a serious effort to build a thinking machine. We've developed a detailed plan (subject to ongoing revision based on what we learn as we proceed!) , possess the ability to execute it, and we're proceeding with the hard work step-by-step.