From: bengoertzel@gmail.com on behalf of Ben Goertzel •>
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2016 1:49 AM
To: Jeffrey Epstein
Cc: Jim Rutt
Subject: meeting up this summer?
Hi Jeffrey,
So ... I'm going to be in the US for a while this summer...
According to my current schedule, I'm free to meet anytime within July
21- Aug 31 on the East Coast ... does anytime in that window work for you?
Aug 1-3 I tentatively plan to be in California and we could meet there if you plan to be out there....
We have been doing lots and lots of interesting stuff with OpenCog and Hanson Robotics; I could summarize via email
but it would be more fun
and productive to discuss in person.... Among other things, we are
finally using OpenCog to control the Hanson robot heads now -- they're not yet doing anything genius, but at least there
is something to show, and we can make them smarter and smarter now via integrating more of our OpenCog research
code into the robot-control system...
(The robot is a concrete focus for combining cognition, language, perception and action ... advantageous in various ways
compared to the video-game stuff we were playing with earlier ... but in the end of course it's cognition and learning
that are key not the robot, it's just a medium...)
As noted in earlier emails, Jim Rutt and Cassio and I have worked out a quite detailed OpenCog project plan for the next
3 years ,which I think would lead us to a (the?) revolutionary breakthrough in AGI.
We are proceeding according to this plan already but obviously more
funding would accelerate things. We have talked to some HNW
individuals recently who have made positive noises, but noises aren't money ... still, even with our current inadequate
funding we are making more progress than in previous years, which is really rewarding and fun for me... these are
awesome times for AI, and it's just gonna get better...
Anyway -- let me know if the timing works out for meeting up, I really hope so...
thanks
Ben
Ben Goertzel, PhD
http://goertzel.org
Super-benevolent super-intelligence is the thought the Global Brain is currently struggling to form...
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