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From: Ben Goertzel To: Jeffrey Epstein <[email protected]> Subject: Re: AGI R&D Proposal Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2013 11:44:20 +0000 Attachments: Epstein_AGI_Proposal_Summary_2013_v6.pdf .. this version has a typo fixed ;p On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 7:40 PM, Ben Goertzel wrote: > Hi Jeffrey, > Attached find a research proposal such as we discussed. > Please let me know when you'd like to talk next; I can make myself > available anytime for this, but late morning or early evening your > time works ideally given the time zone differences... > As you'll see, I decided to take up your invitation to "think big" ... > this is a full fledged proposal "from here to AGI", with lots of > exciting incremental progress along the way... > I hope you'll be able to take the time to read it over ;) > Of course it would be AWESOME to start a project like this > full-speed-ahead sometime soon !! I'd be happy to discuss that > with you at any time... > As you'll see, the project as I conceive it is neatly divided into > modular teams, so it could be done as one big co-located team, or it > could be done via a group of interacting teams at different locations > (including some in university labs, fitting with your general funding > M.O. of supporting university labs)... > OTOH if that sort of "AGI Brooklyn Project" style initiative is too > much for you to bite off at the moment, I would still VERY much value > help meeting the $45K obligation for the 10% "Corporate Sponsorship" > of my 2014 "10 AI programmer" Hong Kong R&D grant. This will help us > get OpenCog to do cool enough stuff that you will have an easier time > getting interest from others in the broader proposal.... For > instance, I'm pretty sure that during 2014 we can get OpenCog to > demonstrate a capability for deception in the game world ;) > I recall you mentioned in our conversation that you think I should > "be somewhere." I guess you mean at some US institution. I am > pretty open to relocating anywhere if this relocation is part of a > major AGI funding/R&D initiative. On the other hand, here I have > managed to get the gov't to allocate me $$ for AGI programmers, which > is nice. One possibility, if you're agreeable, would be for you to > fund me to have a research professorship at Hong Kong Poly U, which is > where the OpenCog programmers here are situated. That way I could > spend the bulk of my time on OpenCog AGI work, which would be EFTA00978070 > great.... Of course that is not as good as having the full fledged > AGI project funded, but it would let me work better toward getting > OpenCog to do cool stuff that will help attract funding for the larger > project... > Anyway you get the idea... hope we can talk soon... > -- Ben > -- > Ben Goertzel, PhD > "In an insane world, the sane man must appear to be insane". -- Capt. > James T. Kirk Ben Goertzel, PhD "In an insane world, the sane man must appear to be insane". -- Capt. James T. Kirk EFTA00978071