Epstein Secrets

ing. Until soon! And best regards, On Aug 15, 2014, at 5:17 AM, Ben Goertze > wrote: Hi (and Jeffrey) I took some time on the 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 but you can pick and choo

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

nd builds (driving and flying) robots for the Ethiopian military, to surveil their border with Sudan... He also gives seminars on the Singularity in Addis Ababa (maybe 7-8 per years), and gets 700-800 people to attend each time. He's young, maybe 28, and kind of naive about the world outside Africa. But he

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

d builds (driving and flying) robots for the Ethiopian military, to surveil their border with Sudan... He also gives seminars on the Singularity in Addis Ababa (maybe 7-8 per years), and gets 700-800 people to attend each time. He's young, maybe 28, and kind of naive about the world outside Africa. But he

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

dis Lab provides free, open-source programming to the community at large and collaborates with universities, schools and the government, such as the Addis Ababa Institute of Science and Technology. Founded by Ben Goertzel, Chairman of OpenCog and Getnet Asefa, Manager and co-founder of Addis Al lab, the tea

n Ethiopia Artificial Intelligence and information technology is actually thriving in Ethiopia thanks to an innovative Al group in Hong Kong called OpenCog and the funding of the Hong Kong government and the Jeffrey Epstein VI Foundation in New York. The recipient of funding was the Al lab in Sidist Kil