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Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2015 2:38:01 AM Subject: Re: Ethiopia article published From: Ben Goertzel To: Cc: Jeffrey Epstein <jeevaca ion gmar .com> Looks great! Congrats on the publication, and thanks for getting iCog the publicity — the guys in Addis will be thrilled ;-) ben >100 i ei ,1.1.11"M > > > Techonomy placed a link to Cog Labs as well. •> I'll follow up with you shortly about setting up an Al conference with them > for next Fall. I'm in San Francisco and back home tomorrow. > Am cc'ing Jeffrey. > all the best > > Forwarded > From: > To: Ben Goertzel iiiiiii m > Sent: Monday, A , i • > Subject: Al Ignites in Ethiopia article > Dear Ben, > I hope you are well. I finally placed the Al in with ormer tec editor of > Fortune Magazine and the founder of the popular series. Techonomy > has become the TED Talks for technology subjects and its role in society. > They host televised conferences worldwide and are an incredibly dynamic > group. Please take a look at their website: www.techonomy.com . Let me know > if you have any interest in pulling together a conference on your work and > where you think Al is headed today and I will send your proposal to them. > Techonomy has wide global coverage. > The Guardian initially wanted this piece but then retracted because they > felt the Ethiopian government was too corrupt... (seemed myopic to me). The > BBC also wanted it but was only going to include a small snippet in a larger > Al segment that they're doing in September. > So I thought Techonomy was a good fit especially since they are global and EFTA_R1_00038656 EFTA01745739 > have a televised conference division that can be tapped into. > The editor asked me if I could get an image for the article. Do you have one > of you and Getnet Assefa or of the iCog team that they could use? > I will send you the link when published. > > Thank you in advance, > Best wishes Ben Goertzel, PhD http://goertzel.org "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." — George Bemard Shaw EFTA_R1_00038657 EFTA01745740