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From: on behalf of Ben Goertzel <a' I To: Jeevacation <jeevacation®gmail.com> Subject: Re: Singularity Summit and followup workshop Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 18:01:48 +0000 The speaker list is here http://www.singularitysummit.com/program Peter Thiel, who is listed near the top, is the PayPal founder whom I mentioned (who wanted to start his own currency outside the scope of nation-states, but wound up getting rich from selling PayPal to eBay instead...) Marcus Rutter, the "theory of AGI" guy whose math I've been connecting to my own AI system, will also be speaking, along with his former PhD supervisor Juergen Schmidhuber (both of these are truly brilliant German AI guys ... not really practical AI-system-builders though...). My friend Itamar who is a great AGI at U. of Knoxville will be there too. (He is also considering moving to China because it's impossible to get AGI funded here, though he's well- funded by NSF for other sorts of research... ;p) I don't have the participant list, but I'll pass it your way if/when I get it. I'm not involved with organizing the Summit, just speaking there... thx ben On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Jeevacation<jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: > Please send a participnt list > Sent from my iPhone > On Aug 17, 2009, at 1:22 PM, Ben Goertzel <-> wrote: >> Jeffrey, >> >> BTW I think I mentioned this to you before, but you may be interested >> in the Singularity Summit which is a conference in NY Oct 3-4 >> >> http://www.singularitysummit.com/ >> >> Also, there will be a small-scale workshop on Oct 5 and the morning of >> Oct 6, which will be restricted to the **speakers** at the Summit, >> plus perhaps a handful of others. If you have interest in attending >> all or part of this workshop, let me know; you'd be welcome. This » might be more your speed than the main conference as it will be >> "brilliant people only" and more discussion-oriented.... >> >> I'll be giving a talk on my AI and bioinformatics projects at the » Summit, and there's at least some chance this will arouse some >> investor/donor interest ... who knows. Also, Dan Stoicescu, the guy I >> mentioned who funded Novamente for a while this year, *may* be at the >> Summit and follow-up discussions (though I can't be sure as he's been >> very elusive lately).... >> >> Also, apart from the Summit, if you want to get together F2F that >> interval would be convenient for me as I'll be in NY anyway... >> >> -- Ben >> EFTA00773750 » P.S. >> I thought a moment more about your question of "why AGI can't get » traction." >> I think that once one AGI project achieves a sufficiently interesting >> result, then we'll all-of-a-sudden see AGI getting a *hell of a lot* » of traction. But I think my project is maybe $250K-$600K and 2-3 >> years away from getting that kind of kick-ass result. This is what » the project plan I sent you N months ago was about. » What is needed is for one AGI project (like mine ;-) to get funded » consistently for a few years, so that a system doing basic integrated » language/learning reasoning can be demonstrated. Then the world will >> pay attention and the funding will pour in from all sorts of sources. >> And like I said, without my project being funded overall, what I can >> do is to do mathematical work to refine my design and theory, so that >> when the funding does come, the work will be smoother and smaller.. >> Ben Goertzel, PhD >> CEO, Novamente LLC and Biomind LLC >> Director of Research, SIAI • >> "Truth is a pathless land" -- Jiddu Krishnamurti Ben Goertzel, PhD CEO, Novamente LLC and Biomind LLC Director of Research, SIAI "Truth is a pathless land" -- Jiddu Krishnamurti EFTA00773751