current discussion

Current discussion

administrative issues

• It has been a long time since we all met and discussed current status and development aims on a broader basis. So probably it's time for another workshop weekend

node nets

• there will be a new node type which is being specified: chunk-development, Chunks and Logic, Cooperating Chunks

agent

• the visual perception system of the simpleagent is being completely redesigned, based on visual features of objects rather than the objects themselves

world development

• The world subproject has obviously the most urgent needs for development. There's a number of reasons for that:

1. the categorization subproject urgently needs a more complex and 'better structured' world to be able to learn regularities
2. the esthetics subproject wants to create a bigger world, and a more beautiful one
3. the plans for creating a world that is constantly online and available via the web could become real in a not-too-distant future.
4. We need more cool-looking stuff. Things to make people go "Woah, I wanna join da team!".

At the moment, the world object model is being extended in order to support visual features needed by the simpleagent's new visual system. So (as always) the is not much time to care for all the nice things mentioned above ;-)