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Getnet Aseffa Gezaw. Amara knew Ben from various futurist conferences in the US, as well as due to Goertzel's ongoing relationship with her employer Kurzweil; she knew Getnet due to corresponding with him via email and video-chat about a variety of futurist topics. Getnet had been giving a series of lect
every location on the planet. While IBM has put a supercomputing facility in Kenya, none of the major tech firms has moved into Ethiopia yet -- but OpenCog is there, gaining benefit from the large volume of tech graduates produced by Ethiopian universities, and at the same time producing a population of
some seed funding to enable the training of an initial programming team. And so iCog was born. Our idea was to have iCog do a mix of AI R&D on the OpenCog project, and commercial outsourcing for AI projects based around the world. The commercial projects would fund the AI R&D, and might also lead to e
eed for your article but you can pick and 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 effort, which has been **very very very** much appreciated; but the
wspaper headlines) is working on applying this sort of deep learning to speech processing. To my mind, this stuff basically embodies the notions in Kurzweil's book already. But Ray, I think, sees his approach as more distinct from Ng's -- Ray's current, germinal team does not seem to strongly agree with
ocus and bottleneck for them at the present. Ray's feeling is that if I can show him that, then we can figure out a practical way for Google, me and OpenCog to collaborate on building something having great economic value to Google, as well as having some incremental value in building toward AGI. And th
penCog/Google collaboration, and then regarding the situation of Al research and Ray Kurzweil at Google in general... OPENCOG & GOOGLE In terms of OpenCog and my own work, it seems clear that, if I can put together the right sort of demo for them, it will be plausible to start a serious collaboration w
> Dr. Damien Broderick > Best known as a science fiction writer, Damien also wrote a book > called "The Spike" in XX, which was basically just like Kurzweil's > "The Singularity is Near", but too far ahead of its time (and > better-written).... Has edited some other books on futurist tech.. *** > Heat
ien Broderick Best known as a science fiction writer, Damien also wrote a book called "The Spike" in the late 1990s, which was basically just like Kurzweil's "The Singularity is Near", but too far ahead of its time (and better-written).... Has edited some other books on futurist tech.. *5* Heather Kni
orn/watch?v=PyKzO0MFIzI A young German AGI researcher with a psychology background. His AGI system is called MicroPsi, and it's the inspiration for OpenCog's emotion/motivation system. He had a couple academic post-docs but is now working in industry developing a new version of MicroPsi and applying i
••• Dr. Damien Broderick Best known as a science fiction writer, Damien also wrote a book called "The Spike" in XX, which was basically just like Kurzweil's "The Singularity is Near", but too far ahead of its time (and better-written).... Has edited some other books on futurist tech.. ••• 7 EFTA_R1_
com/watch?v=PyKzO0MF1zI A young German AGI researcher with a psychology background. His AGI system is called MicroPsi, and it's the inspiration for OpenCog's emotion/motivation system. He had a couple academic post-docs but is now working in industry developing a new version of MicroPsi and applying it
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