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From: Joscha Bach < Sent: Sunday, August 23, 2015 12:50 AM To: Jeffrey Epstein Subject: Re: Dear Jeffrey, how are you? We came back from Germany on Tuesday evening. I visited a couple =onferences and a symposium, and got a best paper award for a piece on =quipping Al with motivation. At the moment, I am working with a =sychologist on translating the motivation theory into what we hope will =ecome a model of personality, which we can then test. Another thing =hat I a currently experiment with is a type of semantic/neural network =hat instead of activations passes several simple types of messages to =acilitate learning and self-organization. The basic idea is to find out =f we can replace the global operations that are for instance done in =ackpropagation (where an algorithm looks like God's eye at a complete =ayer of neurons in a neural net) by local operations (where each neuron =nly talks to its directly connected neighbors, and no central control =xists). In a sense, each node becomes something like an information =roker that gets rewards for computing predictions for his neighbors, =ased on information he buys or commissions from his neighbors. I am =urious if this is a better or an equivalent paradigm to energy (as for =nstance in Boltzmann machines). While I was in Berlin, I sat down with =y MicroPsi group (Priska also visited this summer in Cambridge). We are =orking on getting our agent simulation to do stuff in a computer game =orld. Other than that, I am hanging out every week at Marvin Minsky's, and =elp getting their Minskitute started. I hope that there is a chance to =uild a critical mass to initiate work on his classical ideas =especially Society of Mind), despite the fascinating political =ifficulties. Last but not least, I will teach a seminar on the Future of Artificial =ntelligence at the Media Lab. Bests, and grateful greetings, Joscha > Am Aug 22, 2015 um 12:30 schrieb jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com>: > bring me up to speed, on what you are doing/ > please note > 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 > JEE 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 EFTA_R1_01611863 EFTA02490706 <?xml version=.0" encoding=TF-8"?> <IDOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/Propertylist-1.0.dtd"> <plist version=.0"> <dict> <key>conversation-idgkey> <integer>106784</integer> <key>date-last-viewed</key> <integer>0</integer> <key>date-received</key> <integer>1440290985</integer> <key>flags</key> <integer>8590195713</integer> <key>gmail-label-ids</key> <array> <integer>6</integer> <integer>2</integer> </array> <key>remote-id</key> <string>536337</string> </dict> </plist> 2 EFTA_R1_01611864 EFTA02490707