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From: Jeffrey Epstein <jeevacation@grnail.com> To: Lesley Groff Subject: Fwd: video chat? Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 16:33:03 +0000 Forwarded message From: Ben Goertzel Date: Tuesday, November 19, 2013 Subject: video chat? To: Jeffrey Epstein <jeevacation@gmail.com> Hi, Great! It will be good to chat; it's been a while ;) If you're on the US East Coast, then given the time zone difference, some convenient times would be: 7PM US Eastern time (= 8AM Hong Kong time) or 10AM US Eastern time (=11PM Hong Kong time).... I can do those times basically any day, just let me know what day/time works for you.... (Or feel free to posit some other time, those are just suggestions...) I'm on Skype, or or I can call a US number easily, of course... Yours, Ben on Google Hangouts... On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 6:18 PM, Jeffrey Epstein <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote: > great idea > On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 5:35 AM, Ben Goertzel < wrote: » Hi, >> One more small thing.. >> Joscha mentioned he talked to you via video-chat, by the way.... >> We've never tried that, but now that I'm in Hong Kong most of the >> time, it might be a good idea, since a F2F meeting may be difficult to >> coordinate... >> Let me know if you have time -- certainly it's "higher bandwidth" in >> some ways than email. » Yours EFTA00379537 » Ben >> On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 2:12 PM, Ben Goertzel > wrote: >» Hi Jeffrey, »> >> > [Sony for the semi-long email but there's lots to cover; I know >> > you're busy and your time is appreciated... ;) ] »> >> > Firstly -- Wow, it seems your publicity folks have been quite >> > impactful lately! Since your team has issued a number of press >> > releases mentioning me lately, I keep getting emails from people >> > congratulating me on my new AGI funding windfall from the Jeffrey >> > Epstein IV Foundation. (Though of course, I have to disappoint them >> > by telling them that, while you've been consistently and wonderfully >» helpful to my work over the years, there has been no big-time >» Epstein/OpenCog AGI funding event... yet ...) »> >> > Anyway -- on to immediate practical matters -- the time of year has >> > come for me to email you and inquire about the possibility of ongoing >> > research funding... » > >> > You may recall that my Hong Kong government research grant requires >> > private donations amounting to 10% of the $S, and then the government >» will put up 90%. »> >> > Last year you donated $20K toward this grant, which was very much >» appreciated. »> >> > This year I have gotten approval for an increase in the Hong Kong >> > government funding (technically: a separate grant running 2014-2015, >> > overlapping with the current grant which runs 2013-2014). With the >> > increased funding, next year we will have 10 programmers working on >> > OpenCog here in Hong Kong, which will be quite exciting. » > >> > The 10% payment for the two grants will be $45K in total, due by the >> > end of 2013. If you could help with this, as you did last year, that >> > would be fantastic. (Elsewise, to be quite frank, I have no ready way >> > to come up with that amount of money except to liquidate my minimal >> > pension fund from my university days ;p ) >>> >> > The new grant (2014-2015) is specifically for natural language >> > dialogue, whereas the previous one (2013-2014) was aimed at robotics, >> > and the earlier one (2012-2013) was aimed at game characters. As you >> > see, what they like to fund is something that sounds "applied", rather >» than core AGI research. However, the bulk of the $$ has always >> > actually been spent on core AGI research. [The funding agency is >> > ultimately fine with whatever you do, so long as it's in the vicinity >> > of the proposal and you publish some papers.] »> >» This brief wiki page »> >> > http://wiki.opencog.org/w/OpenCog_HK_2014_High_Level_Goals EFTA00379538 »> >> > summarizes what we've done in the last year (2013 so far), and what is >> > planned for this fall and the next year. I'm happy to elaborate more >> > details for you if you wish. It's exciting stuff... with this >> > increased grant funding, we should be able to finally make an honest >> > effort at implementing a non-trivial subset of OpenCog... [I can also >> > send you the full grant proposals i The information contained in this communication is confidential, may be attorney-client privileged, may constitute inside information, and is intended only for the use of the addressee. It is the property of Jeffrey Epstein Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying of this communication or any part thereof is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by return e-mail or by e-mail to jeevacation®gmail.com, and destroy this communication and all copies thereof, including all attachments. copyright -all rights reserved EFTA00379539