f to my own team at Hong Kong Poly U, some funds for Joscha > and a couple assistants to work on the motivation/action-selection > aspects, and for Itamar to hire some assistants to work on perception > and action at UTK. If you would be interested to consider such a > proposal, in the vicinity of say

the best) but the fact that it achieves GOOD (even if not the best) classification accuracy via an architecture with so much biological realism. Itamar's architecture, like that of Jeff Hawkins (but unlike Poggio's), does not aspire to detailed biological realism. This allows it to use recurrent co

ng to do the project without them would really be vastly inferior.... If you do choose to fund the project, one possibility would be to fund it via Itamar's university. He says he can work it out so that there is zero overhead, which is appealing. On the other hand, there's also an argument to do it v

supervisor Juergen Schmidhuber (both of these are truly brilliant German AI guys ... not really practical AI-system-builders though...). My friend Itamar who is a great AGI at U. of Knoxville will be there too. (He is also considering moving to China because it's impossible to get AGI funded here, tho

years ago. However, I think this time we are poised to do it right, because we have a careful plan going in, and because at least two of us (me and Itamar) have well-fleshed out, thorough AGI designs. The Laird/Langley workshops gave me some powerful intuitions about what *not* to do in such a worksho

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ems, though, that long hair has been no obstacle to me getting >> taken seriously as a futurist pundit.... And short hair has not >> caused Joscha, Itamar etc. etc. to get loads of AGI funding ;p >> If there are folks you'd like to introduce me to, who you think would >> be put off by my current appea

oertzel < > wrote: Hi, I'm working on a "mini version" of the proposal to send to some "big name" acquaintances to recruit their endorsements for Itamar's and my project... BTW though, I mentioned your comments about Larry Page to my friend Rod Furlan (who knows Larry) and here was his reply We ca

n Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Ben Goertzel < > wrote: Hi, OK, I'll try to keep this reply "as simple as possible but no simpler ... To compare Itamar's emotion recognition to Poggio's, you would need to run both systems on the same corpus of videos, divided into the same set of categories, and th

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It seems, though, that long hair has been no obstacle to me getting taken seriously as a futurist pundit.... And short hair has not caused Joscha, Itamar etc. etc. to get loads of AGI funding ;p If there are folks you'd like to introduce me to, who you think would be put off by my current appearance,

ed technology. In the last few years he's been deeply into Zen. He kinda (I don't know how hard) pushed Founders Fund (his VC firm) invest in my or Itamar's technology but failed.... Luke works with Peter Thiel, who would be interesting to pull into a gathering also; but Luke is a lot more likely to c

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To: From: on behalf of Linkedln Connections Sent: Tue 7/30/2013 2:29:30 PM Subject: See 'tames connections, experience, and more... Jeffrey, Itamar has accepted your invitation. , Itamar Arel Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Knoxville, Tennessee Area I Resea

the best) but the fact that it achieves GOOD (even if not the best) classification accuracy via an architecture with so much biological realism. Itamar's architecture, like that of Jeff Hawkins (but unlike Poggio's), does not aspire to detailed biological realism. This allows it to use recurrent co

you're open to a visit with me and Cassio, we could maybe come down Tuesday and/or Wednesday (i.e. before he heads back to Brazil) Could also bring Itamar if you feel like it ... (another ambitious Jewish professor who thinks he knows how to build a thinking machine, and a good friend of mine ;-) Let

ly morning Tuesday [or late night Monday, but I slightly prefer early morning Tuesday •ifs that works for Jeffrey] I can come with both Cassio and Itamar if that is of interest ... I think it will be a great conversation ;-) thanks ;) ben ••••• Ben Goertzel, PhD CEO, Novamente LLC and Biomind LLC

my ideas in the right way, so I want to be really sure the proposal represents the ideas in a way that's both accurate and "culturally correct".... Itamar has been really helpful in this regard as he's written a bunch of (successful) NSF grants ... whereas my government-funding successes have been mos

oo long, but it was great to see it finally happen. So our job for the next 6 months is to make it more and more intelligent. My collaboration with Itamar somewhat stalled for a while, due to him back- burnering his AGI work in favor of commercial work (AI-based stock market EFTA_R1_00012864 EFTA01734