| From: | on behalf of Ben Goertzel |
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| Sent: | Wednesday, November 27, 2013 6:55 AM |
| To: | Jeffrey Epstein |
| Subject: | Re: Thanks! (& proposal, Google, etc.) |
| By the wayM(who is now living in Hong Kong as well) and I are having a lot of fun thinking through this proposal
you've asked for -- it's quite refreshing to "think big" ;-) | |
| On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 12:15 AM, Ben Goertzel •r
> Hi, | • wrote: |
| | > Thanks for taking the time from your busy morning to chat w/ me |
| > I can talk again at 9AM or LOAM your time basically any day you
> choose 7PM your time also works just let me know | |
| > behavior on the broad level) | > You've mentioned the "deception" theme to me a number of times before;
> but this time we're at a stage with OpenCog development where we could
> actually take that as a development goal (simulating human deceptive |
| > end. The outline is clear in my head (core AGI work + NLP +
> that's all right | > I will put together a proposal such as you've requested: roughly \$25M
> to be used over 3 years, resulting in breakthrough AG goals by the
> sensors/actuators + distributed computing infrastructure), but I want
> to think it through a little (specifically regarding what incremental
> milestones to suggest), so I'll aim to get you something by Monday, if |
| > would be pretty interesting for all concerned ;-) My former
> fund Ray's brain-building work | > You mentioned Google: I've visited Ray Kurzweil and his team there in
> Mountain View once, and will visit them again on Jan. 7 2014. If you
> happen to be in California then, you could crash the meeting; that
> student & employee Dr. Moshe Looks is working for Ray there, which has
> given me an inside view of what they're doing. It's really not AGI at
> this point; they're aimed at helping Google exploit theire Knowledge
> Graph better. Ray's aim is to impress Larry Page enough, by doing
> useful Knowledge Graph stuff for Google, that Larry will eventually |
| > I understand your frustration with my slow progress over the years ---
> and I don't think the slowness is because I'm inefficient; I think
> it's mostly because this is a big task with many parts to build and
> fit together. (Of course, I've also been slowed down a bit by the
> fact that I'm always spending part of my time doing non-AGI stuff to
> generate income) At the modest but steady pace I've been taking,
> I *will* get there to the end goal of advanced AGI, but obviously not
> as fast as we'd like | |
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> But, bear in mind that, even without a lot more $$, we'll have 10
> students/postdocs on OpenCog here next year; so I'm hopeful we can
> make it a breakthrough year... But of course, it would be **great"
> to be able to move significantly faster; and significantly more $$
> would indeed enable that.... I hope we can find a way to really
> accelerate the work! ...
> Thanks ;)
> ben
> --
> Ben Goertzel PhD
> "In an insane world, the sane man must appear to be insane". -- Capt.
> James T. Kirk
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