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Hong Kong and a soon-to-be extraordinary AI lab in
Addis Ababa, called iCog Labs.
The founders of iCog Labs are Ben Goertzel and Getnet Assefa Gesaw. Goertzel ... magnetic
AI tour de force: as Chief Financial Advisor to iCog Labs, he is the founder of the OpenCog
Foundation in Hong Kong, one of the largest open source ... Getnet Assefa Gezaw is an Ethiopian roboticist, a software engineer and the CEO of iCog Labs.
At the impressive young age of X, he is an accomplished programmer
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flight from DC to Addis Ababa today to write down a few thoughts about iCog Labs
(see below). Of course this is more than you will need for your article ... choose as you
wish ;)
By the way, technically, Epstein Foundation hasn't actually funded iCog Labs or the OpenCog researchers
working there. Epstein Foundation has funded the OpenCog Hong Kong ... with the 10%
"matching funding" required as part of our government research grant there. iCog Labs was seed-funded by
Maryland investor Sander Olsen, and currently is self-supporting based
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flight from DC to Addis Ababa today to write down a few thoughts about iCog Labs (see
below). Of course this is more than you will need for your article ... choose as you wish ;)
By the way, technically, Epstein Foundation hasn't actually funded iCog Labs or the OpenCog researchers
working there. Epstein Foundation has funded the OpenCog Hong Kong ... with the 10% "matching
funding" required as part of our government research grant there. iCog Labs was seed-funded by Maryland
investor Sander Olsen, and currently is self-supporting based
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00995144.pdf
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following:
• sitemap and google analytics.
• could you change the word, Addis Ababa Labs for iCog Labs thruout the
front page article.
• could you add the text below ... that same article?
Additional partners of iCog Labs are Humanity+ I media group dedicated to
responsible technology, and Novamente LLC. "We are dedicated to' grand
vision," iCog Labs asserts ... improve
the lives of people in Africa and around the world." Visit iCog Labs at: http:14‘‘ w.i-
coglabs.com/
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I've been linking the NET site
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following:
• sitemap and google analytics.
• could you change the word, Addis Ababa Labs for iCog Labs thruout the front page
article.
• could you add the text below ... that same article?
Additional partners of iCog Labs are Humanity+, a media group dedicated to responsible
technology, and Novamente LLC. "We are dedicated to a grand vision," iCog Labs
asserts ... improve the lives of people in Africa and around
the world." Visit iCog Labs at: http://www.i-coglabs.corn/
I've been linking the NET site to various blogs and will link
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00994273.pdf
following:
• sitemap and google analytics.
• could you change the word, Addis Ababa Labs for iCog Labs thruout the
front page article.
• could you add the text below ... that same article?
Additional partners of iCog Labs are Humanity+, a media group dedicated to
responsible technology, and Novamente LLC. "We are dedicated to a grand vision,"
iCog Labs asserts ... improve the
lives of people in Africa and around the world." Visit iCog Labs at: http://www.i-
coglabs.com
I've been linking the NET site to various blogs and will
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until you get back. In the
meantime, I'm reading everything I can about iCog Labs and look forward to
collaborating with you.
until soon and best regards,
cell:
email ... article on the OpenCog guys in Addis
Ababa (their lab is now called iCog Labs, by the way).
However, I'm on a family vacation this week, and will then
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cost location. A number of OpenCog developers are currently working from the
office of iCog Labs, an AI outsourcing and R&D firm in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Extensive ... iCog Labs staff
could bring the total annual cost down to US$2.5-3M from $11M, a substantial reduction. Intermediate scenarios are
also a possibility, with less extreme utilization
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