Personal Life Planning Assistant

An Holistic, Personalized Social Services Platform Powered By Free Software Artificial Intelligence.

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Written by Andrew Dougherty

Updated on 11:23, Sep 15, 2015

In one sentence, describe your idea as simply as possible.

Using an expansive collection of state of the art and expressly developed machine reasoning software, we will build a personal intelligent assistant that harvests rules of thumb for life from the literature and applies it in real-time to a person's life situation to provide otherwise unavailable targeted tips and assistance.

Overview of the FRDCSA Project, circa 2012.

This Knight Challenge speaks about data, and that is precisely the point. One can demonstrate, mathematically, that in order to solve increasingly difficult problems, one is required to aggregate more data to do so. This has been the purpose of the FRDCSA Project - to gather as many free resources as can be brought to bear against whatever is your ontology of problems.

One thing in particular gnaws at me, and that is, the fact that there is all this knowledge stored in various computer-readable formats, which, if it could only brought to bear when relevant, could transport us out of the "information dark ages" and provide us with timely and pertinent problem-solving advice directly applicable to the problems that confront us in daily life. It is an inevitable revolution in human affairs, which may well deliver us from many tragic circumstances, but the question is how soon and in what form will it come to pass?

Briefly describe the need that you're trying to address.

I am trying to text-mine different sources of information which inform strategies and courses of action in different mundane circumstances of life, in order to really take things up a notch and provide a kind of existence which lacks basic wants. I'm talking about problems that affect the poor. They also affect everyone else, but the poor in particular are more exposed to these problems. Solving it once and for all for everyone is the goal.

What progress have you made so far?

Well, the FRDCSA has been in continual development for the last 15 years. It possesses a vast array of integrated software libraries which can communicate different problem formalisms and work to solve the problems, using a blackboard architecture. Recently, I resorted to the use of the OpenCyc system as its ontology is very advanced and provides a sufficiently expressive machine-reasoning capable format for expressing the needs and wants of day to day life.

What would be a successful outcome for your project?

The basic needs/wants ontology integrated. The temporal planning capabilities active and creating so-called living plans. A freely available version of the Panoply virtual machine release of the FRDCSA which has everything required to run the system.

More references about the project can be found here:
http://frdcsa.org/visual-aid
https://www.newschallenge.org/challenge/healthdata/entries/personal-life-planning-assistant
http://frdcsa.org/frdcsa
http://www.frdcsa.org

Please list your team members and their relevant experience/skills.

Andrew Dougherty
Developer, FRDCSA Project

3 more, but must first verify their participation.

Where is your project located?

We would be a telecommute group. We have three members in the Central time zone and one in the Pacific.

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