| From: | on behalf of Ben Goertzel |
|---|---|
| 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 |
> 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
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> Ben Goertzel PhD
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> James T. KirkBen Goertzel, PhD¶
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