Epstein Secrets

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

e to support OpenCog R&D at iCog Labs, that would be awesome. NOW, since Jeffrey has been so generous to me over the years, and has also helped with OpenCog HK, I don't mind there being a press release associating Epstein Foundation with iCog Labs. I'm just describing the situation for you in detail so that

nt funding is for natural language dialogue, and I >> believe that by the end of 2015 we can get an interesting NL dialogue >> system created using OpenCog -- and connected to David Hanson's >> robots, which will be a very effective demo. I don't think this is >> as scientifically profound as the virtu

it will be based on >> underlying reasoning and understanding. » EFTA00709554 >> As you know, since I am associated with the sponsorship of the OpenCog >> HK grant at HK Poly U, I can't be funded under that grant. However, >> I am very very eager to be able to spend my own time on AGI R&D once >>

> On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 3:54 AM, Ben Goertzel wrote: » Hi, >> Ah, and one more thing regarding my financial particulars. >> As each year, the OpenCog HK project requires a "corporate >> contribution" (10% corporate contribution is required to secure the >> 90% government funding, under this kind of

HK grant funding is for natural language dialogue, and I believe that by the end of 2015 we can get an interesting NL dialogue system created using OpenCog -- and connected to David Hanson's robots, which will be a very effective demo. I don't think this is as scientifically profound as the virtual-ani

g on some of the > powerful tools that Joscha and I have built over the last years), and > aim to scientifically validate our approach (a subset of OpenCog, > including OpenPsi which is modeled on Joscha' Psi/MicroPsi model and > which Joscha would like to help evolve further) in the context of a > vi

Subject: Re: "Intelligent Virtual Animal" research proposal > Hi, Ah, and one more thing regarding my financial particulars. As each year, the OpenCog HK project requires a "corporate contribution" (10% corporate contribution is required to secure the 90% government funding, under this kind of researc

or the $10K, i.e. send it to Uncle Sam for my 2010 taxes... Guess you're still in Africa? Let me know when you may have the time to chat about AGI, OpenCog, and so forth. Definitely lots to talk about! My collaboration with Itamar continues as well by the way (separately from the Hong Kong OpenCog AGI p

From: n behalf of Ben Goertzel < Sent: Wednesday, June 1, 2011 11:11 PM To: Jeffrey Epstein Subject: Re: Information for financial support of OpenCog HK project Jeffrey, Just re-sending to be sure you got this the first time around... (the financial info you asked for). I covered the $10K payment m