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From: Jeevacation <jeevacation@gmail.com> Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 5:30 PM To: Ben Goertzel Subject: Re: Singularity Summit and followup workshop Please send a participnt list Sent from my iPhone On Aug 17, 2009, at 1:22 PM, Ben Goertzel wrote: > Jeffrey, > B1W 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, *mays 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 > 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 EFTA_R1_01314294 EFTA02344935 > 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 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <IDOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.O.dtd"> <plist version="1.0"> <dict> <key>date-last-viewed</key> <integer>0</integer> <key>date-received</key> <integer>1250530216</integer> <key>flags</key> <integer>8590195713</integer> <key>gmail-label-ids</key> <array> <integer>21</integer> </array> <key>original-mailbox</key> <string>imap://jeevacation@imap.gmail.com/%5BGmail%5D/All%20Mail</string> <key>remote-ick/key> <string>34222</string> </dict> </plist> 2 EFTA_R1_01314295 EFTA02344936