Tutorial Sessions 2009
From OpenCog
We are planning a series of "hands on" OpenCog tutorials, aimed at teaching folks how to run and make changes to various AI code that's been written for OpenCog.
The plan is to release relevant "course materials" for each session (probably screen-capture instructions) a week or so before each session, so students can come into each session prepared.
Tentative scheduling and topics are as follows:
- ECAN (Joel Pitt), April 15, 4-6pm EDT, 8-10pm UTC/GMT log
- PLN (Joel Pitt), April 26, 4-6pm EDT, 8-10pm UTC/GMT log
- RelEx (Linas Vepstas), May 6 log
- MOSES (Nil Geisweiller), May 13, 4-6pm EDT, 8-10pm UTC/GMT log
- PetBrain (Nil Geisweiller), May 27, 4-6pm EDT, 8-10pm UTC/GMT log
The sessions will be in the #opencog IRC chatroom, with the same logistics as in the prior theoretical tutorials described at OpenCogPrime:TutorialSessions
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ECAN
Screencasts
Screencasts for the 4 main ECAN MindAgents are available from Google video and for direct download as .ogv contained video (Theora and Vorbis codecs):
- ImportanceUpdatingAgent - .ogv (~80M)
- HebbianUpdatingAgent - .ogv (~55M)
- ImportanceDiffusionAgent - .ogv (~75M)
- ForgettingAgent - .ogv (~15M)
Screen cast on Hopfield network example (with info on Ubigraph visualizations too):
PLN
For a guide to the usage of PLN in OpenCog, see PLN Usage
Screencasts
A screencast with a cursory overview of PLN usage in OpenCog:
- Basic PLN Usage - 11 minutes, ~65 Mb.
There are already 3 screencast videos (recorded by Ari Heljakka) describing the internals of it's prior incarnation in Novamente:
- High level overview of PLN files.
- BackInferenceTreeNodes.
- MPUnify methods, substitute variable methods, TableGather::gather method.
(These were made to assist in the port, thus the code probably looks a little different now... but they are still relevant conceptually).
MOSES
Screencasts
On DreamBroker
It is also on YouTube (warning quality is not good):
Embodiment
Documentation
http://www.opencog.org/wiki/Embodiment
Tutorial ScreenCasts
On DreamBroker
Other demo screencasts =
On DreamBroker
On YouTube

