I tried compiling it last summer, and couldn't even get to the point of showing the dog model. The instructions for building and demoing really need some major updating. Besides which, the scientific approach mainly seems to be just throwing together a whole bunch of sorta-kinda cognitive and perceptual algorithms with a unified knowledge base, and hoping something happens.
Regarding the conceptual and theoretical background of the OpenCog approach, please see the two volumes "Engineering General Intelligence" published by Atlantis Press (distributed by Springer) a few months ago. There is a lot more subtlety to it than what you suggest. Regarding the instructions for building and compiling OpenCog, it's a lot easier now than last summer. Try the Dockerfile, for example ... https://gith…
Re: OpenCog – Open Source Artificial Intelligence Framework
#11Ok, I will try to compile the dog again, and I might well queue Engineering General Intelligence onto my books-to-read list.