What is holistic AGI? The term holistic AGI appears to refer to a “top-down” approach, see Top-down and bottom-up design.  In other words, the supposition is that overall design cannot emerge from…

How do you find technical talent in India focused on building AI based products? I’ve spent much of the past three years in and out of Bangalore trying to do just this…….

How could natural language processing be used in therapy? Recently, I’ve been asked for quotes on two such projects: digital grieving tool therapist for smoking cessation See also my Quora answers to:…

What are the hardware and software components required for building an OS like the one shown in the movie Her (2013)? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenCog OpenCog is a project that aims to build an open…

Can anyone give me an insight into how Siri was built? What conversational technology powers today’s AI assistants, such as Siri and Cortana? Siri’s backend was originally based on a government sponsored…

What is the main principle on which artificial intelligence works? By definition, the raison d’être of artificial intelligence is to copy natural intelligence.  (Whereas, Synthetic intelligence is another ball game.) google.com/search?q=define+Turing-test Note,…

What sample programs are available for artificial intelligence? First of all, artificial intelligence is a more or less useless grab bag of wildly divergent parts.  Further more, by definition it implies the…

How can NLP make sense of exophora? The classic argument of roboticists is that true intelligence cannot be achieved without embodiment, in other words full sensory input, both present and past.  In…